Reinforcing all the old misconceptions surrounding the size of a man’s index finger being associated with his manhood, a recent Korean study has revealed that a man’s figure can identify about his manhood.

For the study, the team roped in 144 Korean men aged 20 or older who were in hospital for urological surgery and who signed away their right to dignity, to measure the size of their index finger and penis while they were anaesthetized.

The team found that while each man's height, ring finger length and digit ratio were all associated with the size of his penis, the digit ratio, ratio between the second and fourth fingers, was the sole "significant predictive factor" for stretched penile length.

"However the results ... did show that stretched penile length correlated with digit ratio, as men with a lower digit ratio tended to have a longer penile length”, claimed the team. "This means that it is not finger length but digit ratio that can predict adult penile length".

As per reports, before this study, a large number of studies have attempted to probe the association between the size of figure and a number of aspects of reproductive biology and sexual behavior.

However, the study has refused any correlation between the individual lengths of the ring and index fingers with the size of penis.