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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
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The study took a bunch of people, gave them genetic tests, measured their fingers, and asked them some questions about relationship status and impulsivity
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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
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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
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Also, while their results were statistically significant, when they used a (conservative) correction method, all the significance disappearedpic.twitter.com/txbeCBlBQE
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Essentially, this means that there's a decent chance that the results were nothing more than a statistical blip
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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
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And to recap, here's the Daily Mail headline:pic.twitter.com/GuXdTnuYgc
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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
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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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