soapbox

Kinda interesting headline on WebMD last week – is there a correlation between relative finger lengths and athleticism?  They say that “for women whose second and fourth finger lengths translated into a low ratio, there was greater likelihood the women played sports at higher levels, the researchers report. A low ratio would result if the index finger is shorter than the ring finger.”

First of all, terminology question: isn’t the index finger the first finger, the middle finger the second, the ring finger the third, and the pinky the fourth?  Don’t remember that from Aberdeen.

Second, a negative number is a “low ratio”?  They need to be a little more clear/precise, here.

It’s not every day that you get to download 160 GB of data to your computer. It’s even less common for that 160 GB of data to only fill up 1/6 of your hard drive space.

The problem now is that I have to start actually doing photometry.