Handicap
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"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213 th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General." --"Harrison Bergeron" (1961) Kurt Vonnegut |
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Handicapped or handicap may refer to:
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Handicapping
- Handicapping, various methods of leveling the outcome in a competitive sport or game:
- Handicapping, various methods of outcome prediction or leveling outcome predictions:
- Asian handicap, bookmakers' technique to level odds
- Political handicapping, the news process of trying to predict election outcomes, especially rather than focusing on the political issues
- Hand-in-cap, an old English trading game that inspired the word handicap
- "The Handicapped", short story by Larry Niven originally published in 1967 as "Handicap"
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Human condition
- Disability, an impairment that substantially affects a person's life activities, and may be present at birth or arise later in life
- Self-handicapping, a psychological method for preserving self-esteem
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Biology
- Handicap principle, an evolutionary theory (also known as handicap theory)
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