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Title: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on November 09, 2015, 07:37:47 pm
My Biology class is currently studying genetics (which you study at nearly any level), and we need statistical data for a project. All you have to do to find out if your pinkies are bent or straight is put them together and see if the ends touch. If they do, they are straight. If not, they are bent. I would greatly appreciate the help.
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: karajorma on November 09, 2015, 08:08:11 pm
For a moment I saw a poll with only Bent and Straight as the options and wondered if I was going to have to close the thread and ban someone. :p
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on November 09, 2015, 08:53:56 pm
All you have to do to find out if your pinkies are bent or straight is put them together and see if the ends touch. If they do, they are straight. If not, they are bent.
Without specifying how to put your pinkies together, this makes it rather meaningless...
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on November 09, 2015, 09:49:40 pm
That's the thing - I'd love to have an image... but there aren't really any good images online.
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: Bobboau on November 09, 2015, 10:22:11 pm
you own a camera?
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: z64555 on November 10, 2015, 06:36:25 am
Palm normals parallel or perpendicular?
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: Klaustrophobia on November 10, 2015, 07:36:02 am
I'm pretty sure I understand the question.  Palms facing you, place the edges of your hands together.  Do your pinkies make a V?  Mine just barely do.  I assumed there were very few people with perfectly straight fingers.
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on November 10, 2015, 07:44:26 am
I'm pretty sure I understand the question.  Palms facing you, place the edges of your hands together.  Do your pinkies make a V?  Mine just barely do.  I assumed there were very few people with perfectly straight fingers.

Yes, thank you. That's how you hold your pinkies. Sorry for trying to confuse everyone.
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: MP-Ryan on November 11, 2015, 08:18:47 am
Polls like this make the bring out curmudgeonly-Ryan-with-a-genetics-degree.  Ugh. No. Just no.
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: Rodo on November 11, 2015, 11:24:50 am
Straight over here. Am I weird?
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: Phantom Hoover on November 11, 2015, 11:27:55 am
I don't understand your criterion. My pinkies 'make a V' because they're rounded off at the top rather than ending in a sharp square corner, but that's just because they're tapered; the last joint isn't 'bent' from the previous ones.
Title: Re: Biology "Project" - You Can Help!
Post by: z64555 on November 11, 2015, 01:41:06 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinodactyly