Last year I wrote a post: What Your Fingers Reveal About You that looked at the claim that the relative size of your pointer (index) finger vs. your ring finger revealed a lot about your personality.
Since my index finger is longer than my ring finger, here is what that meant for my personality:
Men with these hands are very confident and can even be a little narcissistic. These people have no trouble being alone often and don’t like being disturbed. When it comes to love, they do not venture out there a lot. They’re not the ones to make the first move.
If you’re wondering what the other two possibilities reveal about your personality, you can click here.
So I was curious when I saw the following headline: The ‘2D:4D’ ratio: How a child’s finger length could be indicative of mom’s income level.
This research, out of Swansea University in the United Kingdom, found that babies born to low-income mothers tend to have longer index fingers than ring fingers. Conversely, kids born to high-income moms usually have longer ring fingers.
The logic for such a finding?
Well, a longer index finger is a female characteristic indicating higher estrogen levels and a longer ring finger is generally a male trait synonymous with high testosterone levels. Researchers theorize that low-income mothers feminize their children in the womb and high-income mothers masculinize their kids. The researchers say the apparent relationship between mom’s income and hormone levels is likely an unconscious evolutionary response on the mother’s part. Its intention may be to give the children the best odds of reproducing one day.
I guess this implies I was born to a low-income mom who tried to feminize me…
By the way, if you are curious about the 2D:4D ratio, scientists refer to the relationship between the length of a person’s index and ring fingers as the 2D:4D ratio. Its implications have been the subject of scientific debate for some time. Researchers say over a thousand studies have examined the 2D:4D ratio.
So given that there are over 1,000 studies on the 2D:4D ratio, and I’ve only written two posts about such a ratio, I’ve got a lot of material for future posts…
I think the scientists may have put their finger on this. But their probe only scratches the surface. If they dig a little deeper, I think they’ll nail it.
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and if you grow your fingernails, is that included in how long your finger is?
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Good point, there.
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if they are, I’ll just grow my nails to whatver personality I feel like being…
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Interesting study and hypothesis. Seems like this study is begging for a testosterone study. Also, how do you feminize or masculinize a fetus?
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maybe by watching WWE or Real Housewives. I know one of my mom’s favorite shows was Queen for a Day… 🙂
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Queen For A Day was one of my favorite shows as a tyke. Oh oh!
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🤓
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I don’t know what to think about this post. All I can tell you is it reminded me of the episode of Seinfeld when George becomes a hand model.
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I can’t remember that one. But everything can be relatd back to a Seinfeld episode…
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I have got to hand it to you. You went digital with digits. Pointing out the pointer. Well done!
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I’ve got to hand it to you Brad for another great comment… 🙂
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you continue to point the finger to research and we appreciate your for that
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but everytime I point a finger there are three pointing back at me 🙂
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math!
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🙂
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It’s studies like these that make me think some students should extract their digits and get on with some real work 😉
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I wonder if there is any study that shows if having one finger longer than the other makes any difference inyour ability to play the guitar What if we found that all great guitar players had an index finger longer than their ring finger. Would be guitar players would probably go in for some plastic surgery…
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I’d guess that having long fingers is good for guitar players, rather than my short fat ones, and a longer index finger would probably be an advantage. With punk musicians they could study their middle fingers…
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I think it warrants some government research funding. Especially focused on those punk musicians.
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I’d happily provide our government with a middle finger…
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Well played 😀
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Interesting. What about toes?
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I think the rsearchers are still waiting to see if they get funding for their toes study…
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Oh, dear…I am sure some research funding could be provided for research which is badly in need of more funding, especially for life-threatening diseases …
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it is a shame that there is so much nonsensical research being done…
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Absolutely… I agree x
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but sometimes they are fun to read about, like the tabloids 🙂
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A curious question to ponder. Until I read this post, I haven’t paid much attention to the lengths of my index and ring fingers (index is longer). When I was growing up, I hoped for bigger hands and longer fingers . . . dreaming of playing basketball with a perfect pair of hands.
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welcome to the longer index finger club. 🙂
I’ve heard longer fingers come in handy for piano playing as well…
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