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Brain Scans May Help Guide Career Choice

Posted by timothy on from the can't-see-past-my-metal-plate dept.

GisG writes "General aptitude tests and specific mental ability tests are important tools for vocational guidance. Researchers are now asking whether performance on such tests is based on differences in brain structure, and if so, can brain scans be helpful in choosing a career? In a first step, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Research Notes have investigated how well eight tests used in vocational guidance correlate to gray matter in areas throughout the brain." The researcher's (provisional) paper is available as a PDF.

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  2. Conclusions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    From the linked article, not the pdf, "Our current results form a basis to investigate this further."

    Sounds like they know the fundamental purpose of all research.

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