Finger length may predict financial success

Well it's official. Those who have been giving us the finger have bigger fingers!

A new study released by The University of Cambridge, it has been found that men with disproportionately longer ring fingers are statistically more likely to achieve financial success.



AP/Technology (salon.com)

This apparently is due to increased fetal exposure to the Androgen hormone and to some degree a greater generation of testosterone.

You just beat me to it!

Need to get up earlier methinks!

oooohhhhhh pleeeeeeeeeeeeeese...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this all they have to spend their money on at the University of Cambridge?

Oh ok, well I am financially screwed than....BTW, this theory is right up there with the size of a man's foot determines the size of his...well you get the idea lol

I have never heard of anything so ridiculous and NON scientific in my life - ppft!

So big macho men tend to be richer and more successful?

So all the stereotypes are true?

That's all this skinny androgynous beanpole needed to hear this morning.

Whatever.

Sorry for the one liner.

reply to post by schrodingers dog

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My apologies Shrodinger's, my diss is not to you, you found an article that is interesting, however, my response is to the headline, it was just the first thougt I had when I read the thead topic. So, now I have read the article, and I still say, whatever.

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No worries sc.

As WatchNLearn said I just find it interesting what universities are spending their money, time, and effort researching.

I am not qualified to make a determination as to the validity of their findings but they sure look to be taking this seriously enough.

I can just see the idiots at human resources of banks measuring finger size as part of applications. Like the old doctors who used to measure cranium size.

I wonder what part of women's bodies has to be larger to affect financial success?

So that's what happened.
Damn my stubby digits!

From the same article cited in the OP ...



OK, so comparing like for like, those with longer ring fingers are five time better at making money than those with shorter ring fingers.

You know what I said earlier is actually now beginning to seem like a real possibility. Imagine a new set of studies which attempt to associate physical traits with a range of "success" criteria culminating in identifying the physically "perfect" man/women for any specific task. So that in the end a set of measurements of one's physical traits can be used to "orient" that said person to a specific life/career path.

And once that ball gets rolling on the level of physical traits, how far behind are the same studies based on chromosomes or DNA?

To tell you the truth, what started as a thread questioning the wisdom and choices of some university studies has now taken me to a much more sinister realization.






[edit on 13 Jan 2009 by schrodingers dog]