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Boys with Longer Ring Fingers are Better at Math
slashthedot writes "While it is well known that boys have longer ring fingers as compared to index fingers, now some researchers say that the longer the ring finger ratio to index finger, the better boys are at math. In girls, the shorter the ring finger to index finger ratio, the better is their verbal skills. 'The link, according to the researchers, is that testosterone levels in the womb influence both finger length and brain development.'"
The ratio of men to women in mathematically intensive disciplines is purely the result of patriarchy, glass ceilings, canes as thick as thumbs, the porn industry, and enculturation via pink dresses and My Little Pony dolls.
Clearly, government must start an expensive program of Grrl Computer Camps to lower this ratio.
Different brain development, not better brain development.
In Soviet Russia index finger ring you!
But seriously. I'm not sure if this kind of research is ethically sound. Considering people could exploit this as a basic form of eugenics... how much more research like this should we be willing to tolerate? And what exactly was the goal of this study?
Ask yourself: Is research was done that proved scientifically that people with light skin were inherently smarter than people with dark skin, don't you think there'd be at least a little problem there? Ethically, I couldn't see a responsible researcher even doing that kind of study. I don't see any practicable use of the results. The end result is overall a negative thing.
TLF
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Correlation does NOT imply causation.
Correlation does NOT imply causation.
Correlation does NOT imply causation.
It's amazing to me that so much is called "science" which also depends solely on this logical flaw.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.
It depends where you go and the womans objectives...
...74 boys and girls aged 6 and 7....These differences are small but significant... That sample is not even close to large enough to take seriously. The test should have been done on adults, all of one gender and in a much larger pool with information on the genetic and racial history of the subjects. But even the starting premise that we're going to pin complex things like "depression, left-handedness, musical ability, and homosexuality" on slight differences in finger length ratio makes me hope that this psychologist doesn't have a lot of patients.Hax-fu?
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Long fingers make better foreplay too.
The type of men women want to fsck and the type of men they want to "settle down with" tend to be two different types of men. The type of man who can provide the mansion with the pool is probably working damn hard, so is hardly ever around, and will almost certainly have far less (sexual) energy than her especially if she is not working but hanging around at home bored (with the pool guy conveniently nearby). A pool guy on the other hand will never make enough money to be the one she wants to "settle down with". Different needs ... she 'settles for' the [possibly nice] guy with cash for financial security but still wants the hunky bad-boy's genes for her offspring and to have fun with. Some women will try to get the best of both worlds and hope not to get caught. Society pretends otherwise but woman also often have polygamy desires like men, they just exhibit them differently and more selectively. I wonder how many families would be broken up if everyone's children were suddenly forced to do paternity testing. Men, whether you're the pool guy or the rich guy, just make sure you know the score and are getting what you need out of the situation you're in. OTOH if you're happily hooked up with a decent woman, all the better.