Laterality of champion athletes.
Laterality questionnaire responses of 144 nationally known male champion athletes and 160 university upper-classmen were compared. For each of 19 significant handedness and footedness items (in a list of 150) the percentage of "right" (R) responses of champions was less than that of students whose interest in athletics was assumed to be nominal. Difference between mean Index of Dominance score of champion is (+.420) and that of students (+.477) was not significant.
a Department of Psychology , Ohio University.
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