Oddly enough, a person’s finger length may predict their financial success. A recent University of Cambridge study of 44 London traders found a correlation between the length of the ring finger and the trader’s financial results. The key measurement used was digit ratio, or index finger length divided by ring finger length. Traders in the group with the lower digit ratio earned around 10 times more than traders in the high digit ratio group. A connection was also found between ring finger length and how long the traders had remained successful at their job. Men with lower digit ratios were able to stay in the trading business an average of three years longer than the other group.
Digit ratio is known to be connected to the amount of testosterone received in the mother’s womb. Higher levels of testosterone cause the ring finger to be longer than the index finger. High testosterone is also thought to create confidence and risk acceptance in adult men, traits that would be very advantageous to traders and other financial professionals. To make the results comparable, adjustments were made to compensate for unequal access to funds and research information, along with the variation in acceptable risk for each trader.
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