Left-handedness and Rates of Violence

Prevalence of left-handedness (percent.left) and homicide rates (murder) for 8 societies.

Usage

Lefthanded

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 2 variables.

percent.left

a numeric vector

murder.rate

a numeric vector

Source

Faurie, C. and M. Raymond. 2005. Handedness, homicide and negative frequency-dependent selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 272: 25-28.

References

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/272/1558/25.abstract

Examples

str(Lefthanded)
#> 'data.frame':	8 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ percent.left: num  3.5 8.2 6.6 6.4 10.2 13 20.4 22.7
#>  $ murder.rate : num  0.01 0.02 0.03 0.17 0.5 5.37 3.02 3.98
xyplot(murder.rate ~ percent.left, Lefthanded)