During the course of cognitive sciene, teachers talked in a lecture about testosterone and finger lenght. There are man with 'female finger patterns' and man with 'male finger patterns'. Furthermore, there are also women with 'male finger patterns'. The patterns are associated with certain characteristics. Another point is that women are better with verbal tasks and more emotional. Men are better with visuo - spatial tasks.
When I was reading the newspaper 'De Pers', I saw an article about testosterone and women. Scientists from Utrecht and Cambridge gave 15 female experimental subjects a testostorone pill. The results were shocking! The ability of women to read the mind of other persons decreased significantly. Hereby, the gift to read the mind of other persons decreased to the level of man. Apparently, the hormone testosteron has an impact on the functioning of the brain and women's ability to guess what other persons think about something. However, the effects of the testerone pill differed from woman to woman and were related to another measurement: the relationship between the forefinger and ring finger. Mostly, the forefinger is longer than the ring finger while these two fingers by men are the same lenght. These differences between women and men are caused through a difference of exposure to testosterone. The experiment shows that women with a relatively long ring finger (typical for men) had more problems with the testosterone pill than the more 'female women'. According to the author of this article, his opinion is that testosterone makes women as stupid as men. What do you think about this opinion?
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