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Austruca bengali Handedness

Summary

Expected handedness for Austruca bengali is 50% right-handed and 50% left-handed

Observed handedness (based on raw totals across all data sets) is 52.46% right-handed, 47.54% left-handed

The following figure displays the left and right counts for each individual data set.

handedness data for Austruca bengali

Data

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ReferenceRight CountLeft CountRight %Left %Notes
Krishnan (1992)1321310.5020.498These data are from Table I and reflect enlarged claws prior to experiment
Rosenberg (2000)101.0000.000
Yamaguchi (1994)030.0001.000The "subspecies" were only listed in the details, not the primary table
Tina et al. (2015)39410.4880.513
Jaroensutasinee & Jaroensutasinee (2004)2011630.5520.448