A correlation between testosterone, finger length and aggression

That is an interesting finding.

So women are immune to this type of thing??

Which hand do you use for this? My left index finger is the same length as my left ring finger, but my right index finger is shorter than my right ring finger. Am I a secret hermaphrodite?

Mine are exactly the same length.

And I always thought finger length was supposed to be linked to something else.

Men only hear out of one side of their brains because they are using the other side to tune-out all the bitching and moaning.

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I think we are missing the point. I have always wondered ( NO offense to the wonderful and kind men of the world), if men's Testosterone contributes to the agression of fights, wars, abuse of other types. Lets face it, it is mostly men who cause the wars and fight the wars. My young sons, in spite of living in a harmonious home would go outside, divide up with the neighbor boys and make sticks into guns and play WAR. I was given testosterone about 3 times for an illness, I became a lot more agressive like " I am Woman hear me ROAR"

AAAAHHHH MY FINGERS SAY I'M REALLY AGGRESSIVE!

It is merely conjecture that testosterone is a main force in aggression, but it definately does affect it. We are still young as a species and our evolutionary psychology is just beginning to catch up to our current roles and needs within our social sructure.

In primal/tribal situations men had to be aggressive to survive. This is not a factor anymore and as we interbreed with eachother this is sl;owly changing. We are not even into 1000 yrs of our current sociological structure.

My main point is that it is not a gender issue and women are just as agressive and/or violent as men. I bet the finger rule would workfor women as well, but the author of the article is using gender specific terms.

No doubt, this is an important study. It is important to study physiological factors that make us who we are. It would be more interesting to know how enviroment affects our agressive tendecies along with the testoserone levels.

I'm curious how they measured something as vague as aggression.

my middle fingers are the same length.

I thought "they" found some sort of weird correlation between finger length and being gay. Sounds potentially mythical to me....

Huh, thats crazy. Really good post.

curious, yet, meh...

sometimes correlations are meaningless.

statistics are running wild!

Yay, my index finger is a tiny bit shorter!

I like to use my fingers aggression to arouse my lover so I can relieve my built up testosterone level; then I feel all cuddly and mellow...

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What happens if you don't have that finger? Does that mean you were so freaking rough that destiny said, "we made a mistake, we _NEED_ to chop that finger off!" ?

Funny it's a Canadian that discovers this I guess the Yanks had their Thumbs and fingers up their asses and would have never realized this. HAHA.

Now that we've identified all these aggressive trouble makers with short index fingers let's go ahead and teach them all a lesson. For some reason I'm inclined to say that it probably depends on the person but then again maybe I'm defending my short little index fingers.

why do they call them fingers? I've never seen them fing

What if my left nut hangs lower than my right?