Finger length may foretell academic potential


	Finger length may foretell academic potential

cpltaiji

5-31-2007 7:55 PM

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cpltaiji says:

Oh yeah? What if you're born without hands?

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<DIV class="source"><A target="ss" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070530/photos_sc/2007_05_30t145814_450x319_us_finger_length;_ylt=AhaOVdzwMyeE5GOaursnV9oiANEA">Reuters Photo:</A>
       A stock broker's fingers key in the day's proceedings on a keyboard in Mumbai, India,...</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070530/sc_nm/finger_length_dc">
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The length of children's
fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and
language, a new study suggests.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070530/sc_nm/finger_length_dc">In a study of 75 children between the ages of 6 and 7 years
old, researchers found that finger length correlated with how
well the children performed on standardized tests of math and
verbal skills.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070530/sc_nm/finger_length_dc">Specifically, boys whose index fingers were short compared
with their ring fingers tended to excel at numbers and girls
with index and ring fingers of similar length tended to do
better on the verbal portion of the test.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070530/sc_nm/finger_length_dc">A number of studies have now found that "digit ratio," or
the length of the index finger compared with the ring finger,
is connected to cognitive performance, some personality traits,
athletic prowess and the risk of certain medical conditions.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070530/sc_nm/finger_length_dc">The findings are reported in the British Journal of
Psychology.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D5E37CB1-C285-404A-8A8E-314AA21809F5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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