Career choice and handedness: a survey among university applicants.
By means of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory the patterns of handedness were studied in 16,590 applicant students to several professional courses in a Brazilian university. The distributions of the laterality quotient (LQ) were different for male and female students, with more left-handers found among the males. The LQ's distributions were different for applicants to distinct courses or to blocks of related occupations. However, no differences were observed between left- and right-handers when each sex was studied separately. No statistically significant differences in handedness were found among the students of different courses that were accepted by the university.
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Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male