This headline is just so gross. Finger length or not, who cares if you are more likely to "sleep around" Compare it to this headline from last year about men, on a very similar topicpic.twitter.com/MwmiNAThhP
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This headline is just so gross. Finger length or not, who cares if you are more likely to "sleep around" Compare it to this headline from last year about men, on a very similar topicpic.twitter.com/MwmiNAThhP
So what did this study actually find? Honestly, this is a nightmare. The study itself was extremely complexpic.twitter.com/fMY8xpFPBm
As a side-note, lucky that the lead author has such a distinctive name because not a single news source linked to the study or even named the journal it was published in Trash, everything is trash
The study took a bunch of people, gave them genetic tests, measured their fingers, and asked them some questions about relationship status and impulsivity
In women, a bigger finger ratio between the 2nd and 4th digits was associated with a reduced score on the survey of relationships that the study used This sentence is where that absurd headline comes frompic.twitter.com/APy64sLBl5
Now, we don't know what that difference is because THE PAPER DIDN'T REPORT THEIR CORRELATION STATISTICS Their model was complex, and I don't have time to rerun it, so it's actually quite hard to know what if anything these results mean
Also, while their results were statistically significant, when they used a (conservative) correction method, all the significance disappearedpic.twitter.com/txbeCBlBQE
Essentially, this means that there's a decent chance that the results were nothing more than a statistical blip
But ignoring all of that, here's a small selection of things that the study didn't look at: - cheating - female sex hormones in the womb - 'feminisation' of women - sleeping around
The take-home from this study is that women with a bigger ratio between their index and ring finger lengths score slightly lower on a scale of relationship satisfaction THAT IS ALL
If that sounds like basically nothing to you, congrats you did better than every journalist reporting on this study that I've seen so far
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