Ixtab
06-07-2007, 09:39 AM
Having a relatively long ring finger, as compared to index finger, was found by a Bath university psychologist to be linked positively to the (relatively masculine) trait of numerical ability and negatively to the (relatively feminine) trait of verbal ability (Guardian, 23 v). This confirmation of a biological sex difference must doubtless have shocked leftist Bath Principal Breakwell (see above); but at least it would not have shocked bisexual columnist Becky Gardner who had once complained that I had introduced her in E.U. lectures as far back as 1982 to longer ring fingers being linked with maleness, aggression and butch lesbianism (Guardian, 31 iii 2000). {Those were the days! - When E.U. was 20 years ahead of the Grauniad!} At the same time, a study from Warwick University reported that the rank order for navigational skill was in line with degree of masculinity: hetero males came top, followed by yags, lezzies and hetero females (Daily Telegraph, 25 v).http://gfactor.blogspot.com/