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View Poll Results: What's the length of your fingers
Index and Ring Finger are the same length 26 21.14%
Ring Finger is longer 67 54.47%
Index Finger is longer 30 24.39%
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Old 10-27-2004, 05:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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What your Hand Reveals

Your Index Finger Length Reveals WHAT?

Hold your hand out. Are your index and ring fingers the same length or is the ring finger longer?

For most men, the ring finger is slightly longer, and in most women, the two fingers are the same length. But men whose fingers are the same length seem to have a special skill at scientific research.

Why? New Scientist reports that researchers from Bath University in Great Britain say this is due to above average prenatal levels of estrogen that aid their analytical skills. It is thought that estrogen causes the right side of the brain to develop, which is responsible for spatial and analytical skills. In other words, these scientists are in touch with their feminine side. (Some developmental genes, which would be impacted by exposure to estrogen and testosterone, control the formation of both the reproductive system and the fingers.)

The opposite is also true. While those who had a "female" pattern of hormone exposure in the womb became scientists, those who had a "male" pattern and whose ring finger is slightly longer than the index finger chose the field of social science, notes New Scientist.

In this study, all the researchers in the departments of chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics had index and ring fingers that were about the same length, a clearly feminine trait; however, fully 81 percent of them were male. But in the departments of economics, education, management, and social and policy sciences, most had a ring finger that was slightly longer than the index finger, a distinctly male trait, but only 66 percent of the sample was male.

"It's unnerving to think the profession I'm in was determined by the hormones I was exposed to in the womb," lead study author Mark Brosnan told New Scientist.

He speculates that exposure to unusually high or low levels of testosterone in male fetuses leads to the scientific brain, while average levels of hormone exposure lead to a social science brain.

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So, what's your hand like? Where do you fall?
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Old 10-27-2004, 05:43 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Oh oh, so I'm a research mathematician and my ring finger is longer... Poor old me...
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Old 10-27-2004, 05:44 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Interesting, my ring finger is longer and I work with kids, and am working towards a counseling degree. It works out in my case...
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:18 AM   #4 (permalink)
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My index finger is longer than my ring finger.
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:24 AM   #5 (permalink)
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My index finger is longer than my ring finger...
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:29 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Not that accurate for me. My ring finger is slightly longer, but I'm pursuing an engineering degree.

Or... I'm in the wrong field.
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:31 AM   #7 (permalink)
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mine are the same..so what does that mean?
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:31 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Looks like I'm in the wrong field too! I've never been any good at scientific stuff but my index and ring fingers are exactly the same length!
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:38 AM   #9 (permalink)
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ok so Im confused....Im female and my index finger is longer than my ring finger...on both hands...what does that mean?
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:48 AM   #10 (permalink)
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ok so Im confused....Im female and my index finger is longer than my ring finger...on both hands...what does that mean?
Well, acoording to the article, you are a female very in touch with your feminine side?
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:54 AM   #11 (permalink)
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My index finger is longer than my ring finger.
Isn't that a common trait in serial killers?
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:54 AM   #12 (permalink)
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ok so Im confused....Im female and my index finger is longer than my ring finger...on both hands...what does that mean?
Yes I believe that means you're normal.
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:54 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Ydde...I swear I've read that article 10 times and I dont see anything about the index finger being longer...only shorter or the same size
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:59 AM   #14 (permalink)
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What does this mean? (other than the fact I have 'fairy' soft hands)
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:07 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Ring finger and index finger are the same length, and I'm persuing a degree in biochemistry. Interesting theory as to why I'm good at it.
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:13 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Mine are the same length. I guess that means I'm a lady?
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:19 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Ydde...I swear I've read that article 10 times and I dont see anything about the index finger being longer...only shorter or the same size
Well, my reasoning is this:
Most men normally have their index finger shorter than their ring. Those who had higher level of estrogen and thus more in touch with their feminine somehow causes their index finger to 'grow' longer, thus making them the same length as their ring finger.
So, I was applying the same principle to females.
But now that I write out my reasoning, it seems absurb. Heh.
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:21 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Mine are the same length. I guess that means I'm a lady?
...nah, Ill leave that one alone.
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Aww come on... I'd love to hear it! I'm sure it'll be a good zing
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:23 AM   #20 (permalink)
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My ring finger is longer than my index finger. I guess that means I'm wonderfully normal.
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:42 AM   #21 (permalink)
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My ring finger is longer and I'm majoring in Comms and PoliSci. Works out, I guess.
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:43 AM   #22 (permalink)
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It means you are a FREAK! (And need to stop scratching your bum, look at the tone on the left hand...)
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:56 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:59 AM   #24 (permalink)
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considering the article, I think it would perhaps have been better for the poll to be split into m/f...

but, this was gives us a reason to comment, not jsut vote

anyways, female, with my left hand of equal lengths and on my right, index is longer. (right-handed).

I'm going to take a leap and say that, it does not mean that i'm exceccively female, but rather that I've a robust scientific brain
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Old 10-27-2004, 06:58 PM   #25 (permalink)
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I'm a girl... my ringfinger is 2mm longer than my index finger.
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Old 10-27-2004, 07:04 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Ring finger is longer and I'm in sociology, the queen of the social sciences... eerie.

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Old 10-27-2004, 08:43 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Male here and my ring finger is a little over 1cm longer than my index finger..

currently doing research in Computer Science... I personally thing this has more to do with the genetics and what your parents have for lengths of fingers, no real affect with what you are good at and your horomonal levels.. sort of how many people have their big toe as the second longest..
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Old 10-27-2004, 08:48 PM   #28 (permalink)
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left hand ring finger is longer than index finger, on the right hand they are the same....hmmm
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Old 10-27-2004, 08:56 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Left hand, index is longer; right hand, they're the same length...figures I'm wierd in this catagory as well.....
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Old 10-27-2004, 09:54 PM   #30 (permalink)
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Both ring fingers are about 1 centimeter longer than the index fingers.

What's got me wondering is, why do both my pinkies curve inward toward my ring fingers?
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Old 10-28-2004, 07:07 AM   #31 (permalink)
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Mine are the same length on both hands,but I have never been accused of being overly sensitive. Does this make me a girlie-man?
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Old 10-28-2004, 07:12 AM   #32 (permalink)
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On both of my hands my index finger is just a smidgin longer then the ring finger. *Oh No.. What Will I Ever Do* :P
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Old 10-28-2004, 07:37 AM   #33 (permalink)
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I can move my pinky finger completely independent of my ring finger. Does this mean anything...?

My index and ring finger are the same length. ahh... I am going into medicine(I'll be a surgeon)...
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Old 10-28-2004, 07:48 AM   #34 (permalink)
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My right hand each are the same length while my left hand my ring finger is longer. So... this doesn't tell me much lol.
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Old 10-28-2004, 10:43 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Animosity, I can do that on my right hand, but not the left. What does that mean?
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Old 10-28-2004, 12:05 PM   #36 (permalink)
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My index finger is longer.
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Old 10-28-2004, 06:32 PM   #37 (permalink)
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I wasn't born with fingers...what's going to happen to me : (
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Old 10-29-2004, 04:33 AM   #38 (permalink)
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Mine are the same length. Weeee.
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Old 10-29-2004, 08:26 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Both ring fingers are about 1 centimeter longer than the index fingers.

What's got me wondering is, why do both my pinkies curve inward toward my ring fingers?
I believe that's just one of those random inherited traits. My father had it (very pronounced) and mine curve in just a bit.
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Old 10-29-2004, 08:47 PM   #40 (permalink)
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That doesn't make sense at all...

The right brain controls analytical/spatial aspects, which are typically NOT as strong in females (estrogen). I don't understand...
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