Which person goes into which branch of the military? The answer is related to the relative lengths of each person’s fingers, suggests this study by a researcher named Huh: “Born to be a Marine: Digit ratios and military service,” HaengRyang Huh, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 53, Issue 3, August 2012, Pages 166–168. The author, […]
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One Way to Not Discriminate Between World-Class Female Gymnasts and Sedentary Girls
In case you were wondering: “The Left Hand Second to Fourth Digit Ratio (2D:4D) Does Not Discriminate World-Class Female Gymnasts from Age Matched Sedentary Girls,” Maarten W. Peeters, Albrecht L. Claessens [pictured here], PLoS ONE 7(6): e40270. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040270. The authors are at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
He gave them the finger(s): A “Martyr to X-ray”
The March 25, 1925 issue of the New York Evening Post features this article about Dr. Frederick H. Baetjer, who gave his finger — actually eight of his fingers — to science: (Thanks to investigator Earle Spamer for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: A few years later someone requested his autograph, prompting this letter from the good, […]
Prof. Nishiyama – #3 – Finger Counting
Everyone (who can count) will instantly recognise the numbers 1 2 & 3 in the picture below: Or will they? Well, no they won’t. All is explained in an article for Osaka Keidai Ronshu, Vol. 60 number 5, where Professor Yutaka Nishiyama (Osaka University of Economics, Japan) lists many crucial variations in finger-counting across the […]