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The length of a man's ring finger may predict his success as a financial trader. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England report that men with longer ring fingers, compared to their index fingers, tended to be more successful in the frantic high-frequency trading in the London financial district.
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The length of a man's ring finger may predict his success as a financial trader. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England report that men with longer ring fingers, compared to their index fingers, tended to be more successful in the frantic high-frequency trading in the London financial district.
Indeed, the impact of biology on success was about equal to years of experience at the job, the team led by physiologist John M. Coates reports in Monday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The same ring-to-index finger ratio has previously been associated with success in competitive sports such as soccer and basketball, the researchers noted.
The length ratio between those two fingers is determined during the development of the fetus and the relatively longer ring finger indicates greater exposure to the male hormone androgen, the researchers noted.
Previous studies have found that such exposure can lead to increased confidence, risk preferences, search persistence, heightened vigilance and quickened reaction times.
In the new study, the researchers measured the right hands of 44 male stock traders who were engaged in a type of trade that involved rapid decision-making and quick physical reactions.
Over 20 months those with longer ring fingers compared to their index fingers made 11 times more money than those with the shortest ring fingers. Over the same time the most experienced traders made about 9 times more than the least experienced ones.
Looking only at experienced traders, the long-ring-finger folks earned 5 times more than those with short ring fingers.
While the finger ratio, showing fetal exposure to male hormones, appears to signal likely success in high-actively trading that calls for risk-taking and quick reactions, it may not indicate people who would do well at other sorts of financial activities, the researchers said.
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(Agencies)
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只要看男性無名指的長(zhǎng)度，就可以“預(yù)測(cè)”他能否成為一名成功的金融交易員。英國(guó)劍橋大學(xué)的研究人員日前發(fā)表研究報(bào)告稱，無名指比食指長(zhǎng)的人更適合在倫敦金融區(qū)從事高強(qiáng)度的金融交易工作。
而且這種生理影響差不多相當(dāng)于幾年的工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)。由生理學(xué)家約翰?M?柯茨領(lǐng)銜的研究小組在本周一出版的《國(guó)家科學(xué)院院刊》上公布了上述研究成果。
研究人員稱，此前有研究發(fā)現(xiàn)無名指與食指長(zhǎng)度的比例與是否擅長(zhǎng)足球、籃球等競(jìng)技體育項(xiàng)目有關(guān)。
無名指與食指的長(zhǎng)度比例是胎兒在發(fā)育過程中形成的，如果無名指相對(duì)較長(zhǎng)，則表明胎兒在發(fā)育過程中較多受到了雄性激素的刺激。
此前的研究表明，這種刺激會(huì)使人今后更具自信、敢于冒險(xiǎn)、做事持久、警覺性高，而且反應(yīng)會(huì)更加靈敏。
在此項(xiàng)最新研究中，研究人員測(cè)量了44位男性股票交易員右手的手指長(zhǎng)度。他們所從事的工作需要快速的決斷和反應(yīng)。
研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，在過去20個(gè)月中，無名指相對(duì)較長(zhǎng)的交易員賺的錢為無名指最短交易員的11倍。在同一階段內(nèi)，最有經(jīng)驗(yàn)的交易員賺的錢約為最沒經(jīng)驗(yàn)交易員的9倍。
如果只在經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的交易員中進(jìn)行比較，無名指較長(zhǎng)的人賺的錢為無名指較短者的5倍。
研究人員稱，手指長(zhǎng)度比例可反映胎兒期所受雄性激素刺激的水平，盡管可從這一比例中預(yù)測(cè)人們是否適合從事需要冒風(fēng)險(xiǎn)及迅速反應(yīng)的高強(qiáng)度金融交易工作，但這并不是說有這種生理特征的人在從事其它金融活動(dòng)時(shí)也會(huì)很出色。
（實(shí)習(xí)生許雅寧 英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯）
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