A more powerful statistical tool is available for sports analysts, potentially displacing traditional measures based on old-fashioned body-dimension (height, weight, etc.), or sport-specific performance (speed, scoring, passing, etc.). The statistic is displayed in a newly published research report: “Relationships Between the Second to Fourth Digit Ratio (2D:4D) and Game-Related Statistics in Semi-Professional Female Basketball Players,” […]
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Relative Finger Lengths and Russian Wages
The famous “invisible hand” of economics is made visible in part — that part being the relative lengths of some of the fingers of laborers in Russia — in a newly published study. The study is: “The Effects of Prenatal Testosterone on Wages: Evidence from Russia,” John V.C. Nye, Maksym Bryukhanov, Ekaterina Kochergina, Ekaterina Orel, […]
Subtle insights from comparing someone’s finger lengths: Stuttering
There’s yet another demonstration of the subtle insights you can get from comparing the lengths of a person’s second finger and fourth finger. A new finger-comparison study extends the tradition established by the father of finger ratios, Professor John T. Manning: “Prenatal testosterone and stuttering,” Christian Montag [pictured here, wearing a coat], Benjamin Bleek, Svenja Breuer, Holger Prüss, Kirsten […]
The Digit Ratio and the Feminist Paradox
If you know what the digit ratio is [it’s the length of your second finger compared to the length of your fourth finger], the title of this study maybe tells you everything you need to know to appreciate the value of the study: “Feminist activist women are masculinized in terms of digit-ratio and social dominance: […]
Male Avatars’ Dances – How attractive?
Does this ‘Male Avatar’ look attractive to you? What if he were to dance? Maybe you might form an opinion if you saw a video? In any event, you can participate in anonymous web-based research project now underway at the Universität Göttingen, in Germany, where Dr. Fink is a senior researcher. He heads the Evolutionary […]
Medical Research Review: Tooth-in-foot & Surfer-Dude Ratio
The Medical Research Review column from the Nov/Dec 2011 issue (vol. 17, no. 6) of the Annals of Improbable Research is online. It gives details of two compelling medical studies, which are pithily expressed in the headlines “How the Tooth Got in the Foot” and “Relative Finger Lengths in Superior Surfer Dudes”. Download a high-res […]
Finger-Length news: Menarche and Booze
Two new studies add to this, the golden age of studies about the significance of the relative lengths of your fingers. The studies (one by John Manning, the father of finger-length studies) are : “Is low digit ratio linked with late menarche? Evidence from the BBC internet study,” Manning JT, Fink B, Am J Hum […]
Finger Ratios Don’t Always Predict Body Odor
Discoveries continue to pour in about the significance of people’s finger lengths. Recently we wrote about studies concerning finger ratios and number of sex partners, finger ratios and the prediction of who will become a good doctor, finger ratios and the success of financial traders, and many other wonderous things. A new Swiss/French/British study reveals […]