Saturday 8 December 2007

I have gay hands...

Wikipedia is a great source of not-quite procrastination. You're not doing what you should be doing, but you're still discovering interesting stuff. I've become addicted to Wiki's LGBT Portal.

And I'm reading up on the (empirical) science of it all. Interesting, but mostly just statistical evidence, with limited value in real life. If you dig long enough, and run enough regressions, you'll always find some correlation. This "hit or miss" approach is the basis of fields like empirical finance, which is then subsequently used by investment banks to fiddle around with you hard-earned.

But reading this article from NYMag, I was struck by the following picture:



And the accompanying text:

The relative lengths of our fingers offer another hint: The index fingers of most straight men are shorter than their ring fingers, while for most women they are closer in length, or even reversed in ratio. But some researchers have noted that gay men are likely to have finger-length ratios more in line with those of straight women, and a study of self-described “butch” lesbians showed significantly masculinized ratios.


The masculine hand is the one on the left, the feminine/gay hand the one on the right. Of course, I had to check this theory out on my own hands. And, I happen to have gay hands.

This is interesting, I think I will try to do my own, secret, empirical research on this now. Check hands, and record sexual preferences. Can't be hard. I wonder if I reach the same conclusion: a study of this in Europe might give completely different results...

24 comments:

Sooo-this-is-me said...

Wow, I have the hands of a straight man, and since I am attracted to straight acting men, then no wonder I like to.. um to.. well you know spend a lot of time with my hands! ; )

Steven

ANDRE said...

I've got gay hands.. Oh my God, I am so going to do this survey with all my friends from now on!

Matt in Argyle said...

hmmm, I appear to have straight hands, although I do know that I have gay hair, haha.

Anonymous said...

Well, I'm a Straight Acting Gay Man and I like SAGM too so I have straight hands... :)

Bobby :)

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Pooya said...

Well Apparently I have gay hands too. and I am Straight but my hands tell otherwise

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