Just found this article (yes, it’s from 2000 but the study was referenced in an article on today’s ABCnews.com) that states that sexual orientation can be deduced by the ratio of the ring finger to the index finger.
Evidentally, men tend to have index fingers shorter than their ring fingers and women tend to have index fingers that are even or longer than the ring finger. Lesbians tend to have more “masculine” hands and gay male hands are a bit more inconclusive although many of them have an even more exaggerated ratio than straight males.
So, once I look past my long acrylic hot pink fingernails, I see that my index finger is significantly shorter than my ring finger. :eek: I think I’m pretty girly. I don’t think I’m attracted to other women (other than Gwen Stefani who defines hotness) although I do always check out what they’re wearing and if they’re thinner than me. But I am active in sports and haven’t dated in over a year and have easily gone looong stretches without sex. :dubious: I once asked a lesbian friend what sort of vibes I gave off and she said I came off more as a “fag hag” than anything else.
So, Dopers, especially female ones, what’s your finger ratio? And orientation?
My index fingers are ever-so-slightly longer than my ring fingers
My co-workers, all female, vote me the girliest girl ever, despite there being several others more glam, more made up, etc. They uphold their decision with “It’s not that, you’re just so foo-foo.”
I was a very late-bloomer, sexually, and had many male, female, gay and lesbian friends into my late teens.
I much prefer men and although I can see the attraction of women for women, I don’t feel that.
I also read somewhere that finger and toe length, besides being hereditory, was also influenced by mild tetragens in-utero. This makes more sense to me.
If the article says that finger length ratio determines orientation, it’s full of shit. Gays and lesbians may have a different average finger length ratio than straight men and women, but that doesn’t mean that you can conclude anything about somebody by looking at their fingers.
As for me, I have the typical straight male finger length ratio, and I’m not quite heterosexual.
I don’t think it’s saying the ratio determines orientation, just that it can be an indicator. I just thought it’d be an interesting poll particularly since my result was pretty opposite of what it predicts.
Hmm, I see the article I linked now wants registration (didn’t before). Here’s a non-registration (I think) article about the study. And here’s one with some actual statistics in it, for the mathematically interested.
Do you have any older brothers? That also seems to be a pattern…
Nope. But I have read before that finger length ratio correlates with the amount of testosterone a person is exposed to in their mother’s womb, which is probably a vital part of a coherent worldview about this sort of stuff.
My index fingers are significantly shorter than my ring fingers (the tip of my index finger is just barely past the first joint of my middle finger). My hands, in general, are rather large - the same size as my father’s, who is six inches taller than me. I’m a straight female, but I’ve had both my fingers and toes (my big toe is just slightly shorter than the toe next to it) pointed out as being “different” than most.
It occurs to me that for my index finger to be longer than my ring finger, it would actually be longer than my middle finger as well, because my ring finger is almost the same length as the middle.
(And if I type “Ringer” instead of “ring finger” one more time, I’m gonna break something. A finger, mebbe.)
Sorry to post again but I decided to look for pictures of the typical hand and… mine are all whacked out. I’m starting to think I have actual, legitimate reasons for struggling so much with the guitar. My pinky is apparently extremely short (the first knuckle of my pinky is dead even with the second knuckle of my ring finger; my ring and middle fingers are almost the same length, with the middle being maybe 1/16 of an inch longer. As I said the tip of my first finger is just barely past the first knuckle of my ring finger. I’ve been struggling with using my pinky properly when playing guitar, and no one has been able to help me really get past it.
Now I think I am rather confident that my fingers are just putting me at a disadvantage.
OK this is preciselt 1 month old, so I hope I don’t get in troublr for the bounce, but this new scientific research makes an interesting observation. Oestrogen ‘boosts male research’ , which state
So the same indicator (index finger to ring finger length ratio) also seems to be noticable in research scientists. (This also explains why I never finished my PhD )
I always hate it when other people do this to my threads, but I asked this before. here is the thread if you’re interested to see the results from last time.
I am straight female.
Right hand: index and ring fingers are the same height
Left hand: index finger is MUCH lower than ring finger
Ok, just measured my fingers and found that while my index fingers are the same length, my right ring finger is about half an inch shorter than my left. What does that mean? I know, I know…I am a freak of nature.
