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That graph... what happened in the 1900s?
We stopped punishing left-handedness. As an example: children used to be taught only how to write with their right hand, and using the left hand would result in punishment -- such as the hand being hit with yardsticks or the child being verbally abused -- until the child forced themselves to write with their right hand.
But why the dip from the pre-1900s? Was it something like "increased literacy, increased punishment, stopped punishing"?