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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 beach boys gave boys all the math they'll ever need. And, it isn't related to the index finger or ring finger, but rather to the finger in between.
A little different that my usual pickup line, but what the heck!
Somehow, I doubt Freud's work would be as widely known if he had come up with "ring finger envy."
In other news, men around the world replied to the findings with a cry of "Oh yeah? You should see my OTHER ratio." Women world around responded by placing their foreheads in their palms and sighing.
OK, so they found a correlation. But it was a correlation they weren't looking for, correct? If I check for the existence of 20 different correlations with a 95% confidence interval, wouldn't I be likely to find one even if none exist? Somebody else would have to confirm this finding for me to give it any credence.
I have a huge cock.
Nature saw fit to bless some of us more than others, enjoy your prime numbers nerds!
Hi, I'm a prime number nerd [adjusts glasses]. Actually having a huge male sex organs could lead to great difficulty making sex with most women. It may not enter fully, and requires significantly more foreplay than average to average-big organs. Also statistics show that girls normally don't enjoy pushing their ovaries in their throat during sex.
Therefore, I must conclude it's better to have long fingers, as they not only make you better at math, but better at playing piano. Both of which could lead to a better financial situation, and every nerd knows it's easy to score if you're rich, while it's much harder to score waving your wang around and pointing out how big it is.
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We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
In which way does this affect brain development? If more testosterone = better brain development, well, then sexism just raised by 50%.
my prime: 611111111113
your prime: 6113
The only way to truly know these things is through phrenology.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
> In girls, the shorter the ring finger to index finger ratio, the better is their verbal skills.
Well, this obviously was written by a boy with an extremely long ring finger then.
In the GP's defense, a woman won't try to kill you and take your wang afterwards... ...At least, not that I've ever heard of.
The more fingers you have, the farther you can count.
Stopping research because people could conceivably use it for unethical purposes is a terrible idea. I'm no geneticist, but couldn't correlations we find like this help when we get deeper into genetic engineering by helping us isolate genes that produce a particular result?
I hear that taking v1111111agra will do that.
The type of men women want to fsck and the...
Hold it right there. I have met a few women in the course of my (relatively long in terms of Slashdot readership) lifetime who are happy and generous enough to go in for a jolly fuck here and there.
But I have never, NOT EVEN ONCE, found a lady whose ulterior motive was to check my filesystems.
Which, I might add, suits me just fine.
Boys extremely good in math tend to lack a ring on said finger.