I’ve been filling out questions on Chemistry.com for what feels like forever. Some of them I think I remember from the first time I filled out my profile, why are they re-asking me these things? Is it because our answers change over time?
I bailed out about 1/2 way through, not worth the effort today. Spread the questions out over time. There are two schools of though about asking for lots of information. Get everything at once and risk people dropping out like I did, or or ask for a few datapoints during each visit. The problem is when my expectations are not in alignment with a website. Tell me I should go grab a beer and settle in if it’s going to take 20 minutes. Don’t sneak up on me like this.
Which finger is “significantly shorter?” I used to love that question until I realized that I don’t know which one I am. What is the value of “significantly?” Indecisiveness when filling out a personal profile makes me sick to my stomach like nothing else. What if I answer the wrong question and Mrs. Right blows right by me?
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Hi Dave:
Is Chemistry reasking the same questions you answered during October 2005, when you were one of the firsts to join?
Did you reanswer exactly the same choices as October, 2005?
Perhaps Chemistry is trying to take you back, to recover you as a client/user. Perhaps Chemistry is *cleaning* its database.
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“Which finger is significantly shorter?”
Dr. Helen Fisher is a Biological Anthropologist whose research focuses on the brain physiology of romantic love. Her theory is that the thing we call chemistry, is in fact “matching people to not only fall in love but stay in love”. She says “men and women are looking for more in a relationship than mere similarity of background, interest and values. That’s carbon-copy compatibility. People want to be deeply in love with their future partners too. That’s chemistry.”
She believes people’s personalities are based on the hormones and chemicals that were present in different proportions when the fetus was being formed. Her compatibility questionnaire relies on collecting evidence of their levels of various chemicals.
The question “Which one of the following images most closely resembles your left hand?” and shows 4 drawings of a left hand
1) Index finger slightly longer than ring finger
2) Index finger about the same length as ring finger
3) Index finger slightly shorter than ring finger
4) Index finger significantly shorter than ring finger
Dr. Helen Fisher had explained that elevated fetal testosterone determines the ratio of the second and fourth finger in a particular way as it simultaneously builds the male and female brain.
So you can actually look at someone’s hand and get a fair idea of the extent to which they are likely to be a Director type (ring finger longer than the index finger) or a Negotiator type (index finger longer or the same size).
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
All those hands size samples are to determine the testosterone level of the person since it was a fetus.
It explain depending on how long apart the ring finger is from the index finger is how much testosterone the person has.
At the end it don’t matter the testosterone level of the person when it comes to matchmaking or other specs.
Men & Women testosterone level change all the time, specially when the male has kids, the testosterone level decrease significantly.
So, lets do the DNA matching now (based on the Y sells), lets get nuts and get a blood sample from everybody we are interested in……like:
excuse me can I get a blood sample from you? I just want to know if we are compatible or not, you look attractive to me but lets see what your and my Y sells say about that.