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.
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