Quiz you distinguish 3-to-no-finger toes anyone has

Did you know that most of us have trouble distinguishing 3 middle toes?

Trying to distinguish 3 toes between everyone

Try closing your eyes, then counting your toes by moving your legs. If you see a missing finger, please give condolences . you are just a normal person.

According to a recent study by Oxford University, more than half of the participants thought that they lacked one finger, in which the finger next to the thumb was the most "missing" . In addition, we will tend to not distinguish our 3 middle toes.

The experiment was conducted with 19 candidates. Everyone is blindfolded and will be lightly poked on each of his toes. After each touch of their toes, they will have to say which toe has just been touched.

The results surprised the researchers when 9 out of 19 people thought that one of their toes was "missing".

In the past there have been similar studies on fingers and toes. In which 99% of people can distinguish fingers. For the big toe and the little toe, the number is slightly smaller at 94%.

But for the middle 3 toes, the proportion of people who can distinguish them in turn is only 57%, 60%, and 79%. Some people even answer only 20% of the times asked and no one can answer 100% correctly.

Interestingly, people often confuse the second finger with the third finger, the third finger with the fourth finger. In particular, this confusion is even more likely to occur when experimenting with a vacuum.

According to the researchers, the cause of this confusion may be because our toes are difficult to move independently and are arranged together . In addition, they also believe that the cause may be because our brain determines our toes are like fingers.

Each finger on the body has its own space and the brain does the same thing with the toes. This will make it difficult for us to imagine how toes, because the big toe alone occupies at least two spaces that we imagine. Therefore, this may be the reason solving for the most toe-to-toe or "missing" toe in many people.

This somewhat . useless finding turns out to have very practical applications as well. Scientists think that from here, they can produce better methods of testing brain damage.