Why do so many humans have this mole at this precise location?
What is the medical basis for this. Has anyone done research to see if this is a precursor to cancer or eventual death by cancer. This mole arrives from teenage years to late 50s.
What is the source of your information that so many humans have this? How many is “so many”?
Many people i know including me. An amateur vox populi but you could try to expand it. You will be surprised at the response. I was.
Clearly, it’s a scar from where you are plugged into the Matrix.
Indeed, I have one in the exact spot. My wife almost has one, but it’s above the hairline and to the left.
My probably not suited for GQ guess: Lots of people have moles on the neck. Only your hairdresser knows for sure about ones above the hairline, but the ones below are easily spotted on any stranger whose neck is not covered. Therefore, it is confirmation bias, if you go out and look, you’ll find them.
I have one of those, just above the hairline on my left at the back of my head.
There was a movie in the Fifties called Invaders from Mars (remade 1986). Aliens were abducting people and taking over their bodies. I’m probably remembering it incorrectly, but the pod people could be recognized by a mark on the back of their neck. As a young boy I kept wondering if I was an alien. My Dad had the mark also.
This is pretty much useless in terms of evidence. Before trying to explain a phenomenon, the first step is to demonstrate it exists. Unless you can provide some better data than this, there is no point in trying to explain it.
I don’t have one, nor does anyone I know.
Why is the lack of this mole so very common, and is there a link between not having this mole and getting cancer? Why hasn’t science yet researched this important question?
probaly comes from toxic root canals.
I have one in this exact location and have no other significant moles on my neck. I can offer no insight however. I’m right handed - it would be amazing if we at the SD could find that correlation right here in this thread. Doubt it though,
Its the location that is baffling. Some people do have a mole at exactly this spot…why? How many people…thats the question.
I have one, my Father had it and his Mother had it. I don’t know if it goes further back. I call it “the Dodson Mole” after Grandmother.
Perhaps us “Moleans” have a common ancestor…
Can I borrow ten bucks?
Hey, if you can’t depend on family…
Sure, press the mole and use the communication function. My address is tap tap press tap press press tap.
ITT : a bunch of people who just rubbed the back of their neck.
Oh, great…now we have to eliminate another one.
I had one there. But I was the only person I knew who did. Occasionally, a barber would fail to notice, and almost nip me. They’d often blame me, for not alerting them in advance. If it were common, you’d think they would have been expecting it. For pretty much that reason, I had it removed.
I had a mole there as well. I’m not sure that the observed trend comes under the heading of confimation bias but it’s something like that.
Consider that if you compare the position of a mole on the front of your body to one on someone elses body, the two moles would have to be within a millimeter or so for you to even perceive it to be “the same spot”. In general then, moles that you look at every day are not going to be notable as being in the same place as someone elses often enough for you to perceive a trend. *
If you have a mole on your back, you wouldn’t even be aware of it, unless someone pointed it out to you or unless it was somewhere that it got irritated on a regular basis. Which is going to be a mole in your hair that sticks out enough to get caught by combs and brushes(at least, I can’t think of any other spot where a mole would get irritated easily). Also, I believe that a mole higher than the nape would have a different effect on the hair - I’m no expert, but I do know that moles interact strangely with hair in general.
So I would say that it is not so much unusually common to have a mole there, but it is unusually common to notice a mole there.
I would also suggest that if you wear your hair very short, you should get the mole removed, as the combination of sun exposure and irritation from hairdressers snagging it with a comb would be a bad thing.
*Interestingly, I have been told by one of my doctors that the numerous moles on my torso are not unusual, as moles do tend to be more common on the nipple line. But the OPs mole is a long way from the nipple line.
I had one there too. It kinda irritated me when I wore necklaces, so eventually I removed it.