posted October 25, 2006 06:13 PM            

Academics find that finger of destiny points their way
Male scientists are good at research because they have the hormone levels of women and long index fingers, a new study says.

A survey of academics at the University of Bath has found that male scientists typically have a level of the hormone estrogen as high as their testosterone level.

These hormone levels are more usual in women than men, who normally have higher levels of testosterone. The study draws on research that suggests that these unusual hormone levels in many male scientists cause the right side of their brains, which governs spatial and analytic skills, to develop strongly.

The study, which as been submitted to the British Journal of Psychology, also found that:
# these hormonal levels may make male scientists less likely to have children.
# those men with a higher level of estrogen were more likely than average to have relatives with dyslexia, which may in part be caused by hormonal levels.
# women social scientists tended to have higher levels of testosterone, making their brains closer to those of males in general.

The study drew on work in the last few years which established that the levels of estrogen and testosterone a person has can be seen in the relative length of their index (second) and ring (fourth) fingers. The ratio of the lengths is set before birth and remains the same throughout life.

The length of fingers is genetically linked to the sex hormones, and a person with an index finger shorter than the ring finger will have had more testosterone while in the womb, and a person with an index finger longer than the ring finger will have had more estrogen. The difference in the lengths can be small – as little as two or three per cent – but important.

A survey of the finger lengths of over 100 male and female academics at the University by senior Psychology lecturer Dr Mark Brosnan has 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 estrogen levels for males.

It also found the reverse: those male academics with longer ring fingers than index fingers – the usual male pattern – tended not to be in science but in social science subjects such as psychology and education.

A further study also suggests that prenatal hormone exposure, and hence index finger length, can also influence actual achievement levels. In a survey of male and female students on a JAVA programming course at the University, the researchers found a link between finger length ratio and test score. The smaller the difference between index and ring finger - the higher the test score at the end of the year.

I definitely have enhanced spatial skills and family history of Dyslexia(including my being Dyslexic too) like they said that males with longer than average index fingers have

Both hands..my index finger and ringer are even.

I do have a very feminine chart

all my big 3 are in feminine signs
Sun in Scorpio
Moon in Pisces
Ascendant in Virgo

and my other personal planets,Mercury and Venus are in Scorpio
Mars is the only personal planet that is not in a feminine sign,but in Aquarius which is the unconventional sign.

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posted October 25, 2006 07:17 PM            

on my right hand my index finger is slightly longer and
on the left hand my ring finger is slightly longer
what would that mean?