Figure You Can Finger It?
Wow, we're a matched pair. Me and him. Mind, we've been together for so long, well over a half century, we must have had some impression on one another. With no intention aforethought we have structured one another's lives, given our own meanings in transfer of imperatives to one another. Yet, we're still different, albeit one-of-a-kind.
Of course there's always that gender irreconcilability. One race, yes, we know that, but truly two very separate and often apart thought-processes, priorities, gender-driven directions and apprehensions. Still, we've managed to enjoy life in tandem. More than that, celebrated life as an inseparable brace of like-minded (for the most part) partners.
So here's this newly-published study out of the University of Bath which claims to have discovered a genetic link between finger length and inborn characteristics. Through sex hormones, no less. The differences, they claim, can be readily ascertained by the simple expedient of observing finger length in young children to determine their future attributes in thinking and in activities.
And wouldn't you know it, finger lengths have different strokes for different folks - male as opposed to female. Men with longer ring fingers than index fingers are distinguished by a greater likelihood to be more physically aggressive; to be fertile and claim more sex partners; to be at greater risk for autism; to be better at math and sciences than with language skills.
Women sporting longer ring fingers than index fingers can lay claim to being better at sports; to be better at math and sciences than languages. While women with longer index fingers are more likely to be fertile; more likely to be stronger in literacy.
And, those men who have longer index than ring fingers are at greater risk of heart disease; more prone to depression if ring and index fingers are of similar length; are likely to have better verbal skills if ring and index fingers are of similar length.
Oh, gimme a break. They've got him spot-on. Why did they botch me? So much for theory.
Of course there's always that gender irreconcilability. One race, yes, we know that, but truly two very separate and often apart thought-processes, priorities, gender-driven directions and apprehensions. Still, we've managed to enjoy life in tandem. More than that, celebrated life as an inseparable brace of like-minded (for the most part) partners.
So here's this newly-published study out of the University of Bath which claims to have discovered a genetic link between finger length and inborn characteristics. Through sex hormones, no less. The differences, they claim, can be readily ascertained by the simple expedient of observing finger length in young children to determine their future attributes in thinking and in activities.
And wouldn't you know it, finger lengths have different strokes for different folks - male as opposed to female. Men with longer ring fingers than index fingers are distinguished by a greater likelihood to be more physically aggressive; to be fertile and claim more sex partners; to be at greater risk for autism; to be better at math and sciences than with language skills.
Women sporting longer ring fingers than index fingers can lay claim to being better at sports; to be better at math and sciences than languages. While women with longer index fingers are more likely to be fertile; more likely to be stronger in literacy.
And, those men who have longer index than ring fingers are at greater risk of heart disease; more prone to depression if ring and index fingers are of similar length; are likely to have better verbal skills if ring and index fingers are of similar length.
Oh, gimme a break. They've got him spot-on. Why did they botch me? So much for theory.
Labels: Particularities, Peculiarities
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