Length of fingers may point out your academic destiny
23 October 2004
by Richard
Conan-Davies
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According to research at the University of Bath, the difference in the length of your index finger and ring finger may predict if you are more likely to be successful as a physicist or social scientist. Led by Psychology lecturer Dr Mark Brosnan, Over 100 male and female academics had their finger lengths measured. He found that those men teaching hard science like mathematics and physics tend to have index fingers as long as their ring fingers, a marker for unusually high oestrogen levels for males. This comes down to the fact that a person with an index finger shorter than the ring finger will have had more testosterone while in the womb where as a person with an index finger longer than the ring finger will have had more oestrogen. These different levels of hormones have an influence in the way the different hemispheres of the brain develop. For example the hormones may improve analytical logical thinking or improve social analysis skills. |
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