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A striking feature in this last table is the close similarity between corresponding entries relating to the same and to the opposite hands. There are eighteen sets to be compared ; namely, six couplets of different names, in each of which the frequency of three different classes of patterns is discussed. The eighteen pairs of corresponding couplets are closely alike in every instance. It is worth while to rearrange the figures as below, for the greater convenience of observing their resemblances.
TABLE VII.
| |
Arches in |
Loops in |
Whorls in |
|
Couplet. |
Same
hand. |
Opposite
hand. |
Same
hand. |
Opposite
hand. |
Same
hand. |
0pposite
hand. |
|
Thumb and fore
finger |
2 |
2 |
3 5 |
3 3 |
16 |
15 |
|
Thumb and
middle finger . |
1 |
1 |
48 |
47 |
9 |
8 |
|
Thumb and ring
finger |
1 |
1 |
40 |
38 |
20 |
18 |
|
Fore and middle
finger |
5 |
5 |
48 |
46 |
12 |
11 |
|
Fore and ring
finger . |
2 |
2 |
35 |
35 |
17 |
17 |
|
Middle and ring
finger . |
2 |
2 |
50 |
50 |
13 |
12 |
The agreement in the above entries is so curiously close as to have excited grave suspicion that it was due to some absurd blunder, by which the same figures were made inadvertently to do duty twice over, but subsequent checking disclosed no error.
