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nancylebovFrom New Scientist:
Unfortunately, the abstract doesn't describe the number of people studied, or who was included.
Is this a cross-cultural pattern? Do people with unusually good dexterity have better than average representation of the size of their hands?
Matthew Longo and Patrick Haggard of University College London asked volunteers to point to the tips and bases of the fingers of one hand while it was hidden beneath a board. The researchers used an overhead camera to record the guessed positions, then compared these with the dimensions of the real hand.
On average, volunteers estimated that their hands were two-thirds wider than in reality, and their fingers a third shorter (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, abstract
Unfortunately, the abstract doesn't describe the number of people studied, or who was included.
Is this a cross-cultural pattern? Do people with unusually good dexterity have better than average representation of the size of their hands?
