So the other day I measured my digit ratios and was sort of shocked to find that the national average (2D divided by 4D) is something like 0.94. Women are something like 0.98. The standard deviations are very tight.
However, my hands are mismatched. My right hand has a favorable digit ratio of 0.96. My left hand is something like 1.09. I'm left handed.
I found through wikipedia research that there's bigger ratio differences between ethnicity than gender. I'm very nordic, and found a scientific essay about Danish men. I'm Norwegian and German, so I'm in the ballpark for this.
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/5/1329.full
Are Danish dudes pussies in general?
So I dunno, am I doomed to being a pansy?
However, my hands are mismatched. My right hand has a favorable digit ratio of 0.96. My left hand is something like 1.09. I'm left handed.
I found through wikipedia research that there's bigger ratio differences between ethnicity than gender. I'm very nordic, and found a scientific essay about Danish men. I'm Norwegian and German, so I'm in the ballpark for this.
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/5/1329.full
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From the existing data, it appears that Northern European males of Scandinavian descent have comparatively low 2D : 4D. A typical male 2D : 4D level of 1.02, as reported by Bang et al. for Denmark, must be considered as exceptionally high. Such evidence for feminization in Danish men is consistent with their previously reported low sperm quality and quantity and high incidence of testicular cancer (Jørgensen et al., 2002), but perhaps less so with the inconspicuous sex ratio at birth in Denmark (Grech et al., 2002; Voracek and Fisher, 2002). Bang et al. stated that sample or national differences in 2D : 4D levels are ‘not likely to influence the interpretation of our results. The effects of increasing or decreasing ratios will be the same’ (Discussion). However, this only holds true to the extent that reliable 2D : 4D measurements can be obtained from hand outline drawings, to which central question we now turn.
Are Danish dudes pussies in general?
So I dunno, am I doomed to being a pansy?
