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 […]
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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 […]