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Estrogen Linked to Research and Programming Skills
Neil Halelamien writes "Psychologists at the University of Bath have found that male researchers and programmers tend to have higher levels of estrogen, a hormone which promotes development of the right side of the brain (responsible for spatial and analytical skills). Increased estrogen was also linked to having longer index fingers and a decreased likelihood of having children. Men teaching mathematics and physics tended to have unusually long index fingers, while women in the social sciences tended to have more testosterone. The psychologists also found that male and female students with a smaller difference between their index and ring finger lengths tended to do better on their Java programming exams. The research leaves open the question of why women (who typically have more estrogen than men) aren't more prevalent in the science and technology fields."
Does this mean we'll start getting spam for products to lengthen your index finger?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Males with higher levels of estrogen (what a difficult word to spell) would have lower sex drives andbe less distracted by all the lovely filthy pictures just a couple of clicks away......
"I could finish this programming task or I could...... oh WOW, is that really possible"
cL0h
Gee, imagine finger length being correlated to programming skills.
It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it.