Researchers Say for an Athlete to Compare the Size of Your…
It’s always interesting to hear all of these theories that if this finger is longer than that finger you’re a genius. If that finger is longer than this finger then you’re a sex God. Whatever. Now, there seems to be a new theory that researchers are putting out that in order to find out if you’re an athlete, you need to compare the sizes of these body parts.
You want an athlete to compare the size of their what?
Now before you go dropping your drawers and breaking out a ruler, researchers are asking you to look at your fingers. Specifically, the size of your index finger and ring finger as an athlete. A professor at the University of North Dakota decided to do some research with the help of his son. They wanted to look at the ratio of index finger and ring finger lengths and how they compare on today’s athletes and if there’s a link to their overall strength.
The research done on the ratio of these two fingers has been found to relate to the overall muscular strength in boys. The professor said to, “Examine the fingers of your hand. Which is longer: the index finger—the one you use to point with—or your ring finger? There is some indirect evidence that this digit ratio of the length of the fingers, is determined during early fetal development by testosterone—the more testosterone the fetus produces, the longer the ring finger, so the smaller the digit ratio. Testosterone is the natural steroid hormone that enhances sports, athletic and fitness test performance. In general, people with smaller digit ratios are better athletes. Our study shows that boys with lower digit ratios have better handgrip strength, irrespective of their age or body size.”
When looking at your hands, your ring finger should be longer than your index finger (to be considered “an athlete” or “strong”). I’m not 100% behind this study—at least not yet. For starters, it’s more of a generalization without true correlation to decipher who is an athlete and who isn’t. The research also mentioned that in a separate study done by someone else, there was a similar correlation between finger ratios in women and their basketball abilities.
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