左撇子的流行及其在对抗性运动中的作用:超越单纯的计数,走向对排名数据进行更深入的分布分析。

IF 2.9 3区 综合性期刊 Q1 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES
Royal Society Open Science Pub Date : 2025-09-24 eCollection Date: 2025-09-01 DOI:10.1098/rsos.250303
Tim Simon, Florian Loffing, Elisa Frasnelli
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摘要

大约10%的人口是左撇子,然而,在各种运动中,包括格斗运动和互动式球类运动的运动员中,左撇子的比例更高。这种过度表示通常被认为是性能优势的证据。然而,之前的研究主要集中在更大的体育人群中左撇子比例的简单计算,而没有检查他们在不同表现水平上的分布。我们的研究通过更深入地分析各种运动中不同表现层次的左撇子频率来推进研究,这些运动包括击剑(,花剑,佩剑)和互动式球类运动(乒乓球,网球,羽毛球)。我们对击剑和乒乓球的研究结果表明,左撇子在各个竞技水平上的平均比例都过高,在高水平的比赛中,左撇子的比例明显更高。这加强了左撇子在某些对抗性运动中具有表现优势的观点,超出了从传统的表现独立分析中推断的证据。左撇子在运动上的相对成功通常归因于他们的对手不熟悉左撇子的动作模式,因为左撇子在一般人群中相对稀少(负频率依赖优势假设)。然而,我们也提出了一个问题,即左撇子的优势是否部分源于其他与频率无关的因素(先天优势假说)。
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Prevalence of left-handers and their role in antagonistic sports: beyond mere counts towards a more in-depth distributional analysis of ranking data.

Prevalence of left-handers and their role in antagonistic sports: beyond mere counts towards a more in-depth distributional analysis of ranking data.

Prevalence of left-handers and their role in antagonistic sports: beyond mere counts towards a more in-depth distributional analysis of ranking data.

Prevalence of left-handers and their role in antagonistic sports: beyond mere counts towards a more in-depth distributional analysis of ranking data.

Approximately 10% of the general population is left-handed, yet a disproportionately higher percentage of left-handers is observed among athletes in various sports, including combat sports and interactive ball games. This overrepresentation is generally considered evidence of a performance advantage. However, previous studies have primarily focused on simple calculations of left-hander proportions within larger sport populations, without examining their distribution across different performance levels. Our study advances the research by conducting more in-depth distributional analyses of left-hander frequencies across various performance tiers in various sports, including fencing (épée, foil, sabre) and interactive ball games (table tennis, tennis, badminton). Our findings for fencing and table tennis reveal an average overrepresentation of left-handers across performance levels, with notably higher proportions at upper echelons. This strengthens the idea of a performance advantage for left-handedness in certain antagonistic sports beyond the evidence inferred from the traditional performance-independent analysis of overrepresentation. Left-handers' relative athletic success is typically attributed to their opponents' unfamiliarity with left-handed action patterns due to the relative rarity of left-handers in the general population (negative frequency-dependent advantage hypothesis). However, we also raise the question of whether left-handers' edge may partially stem from other, frequency-independent factors (innate superiority hypothesis).

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Royal Society Open Science
Royal Society Open Science Multidisciplinary-Multidisciplinary
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期刊介绍: Royal Society Open Science is a new open journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review. The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics and will allow the Society to publish all the high-quality work it receives without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact.
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