Study: Man’s face shape could predict sporting success

Can the shape of a man’s face can help predict his sporting acumen? A recent study found that Japanese baseball players whose faces were relatively broad rather than long were most likely to hit a home run. University of London psychologists measured the facial width-to-height ratio of 104 batters in Japan’s professional Central League Pennant who played in the 2011 and 2012 seasons and found that players who scored the most home runs had the highest facial width-to-height ratio. Previous research has found a link between face ratio and competitiveness among politicians and financial success among corporate chiefs, but this work had focussed only on Caucasian subjects, not Asians. The new data suggests the association “may be generalizable across cultures,” according to the paper.

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