Handshake Science
As I mentioned last month, I don’t know that formulas always make things clearer, but an NPR story from July on handshakes might prove me wrong. (A hat tip to Natalie Fleury for this idea.) Marketplace on NPR aired a story about the science behind the handshake. Geoffrey Beattie, a professor at the University of Manchester researching handshakes for General Motors, came up with the following formula for the perfect handshake:
PH = √(e2 + ve2)(d2) + (cg + dr)2 + p{(4< s >2)(4< p >2)}2 + (vi + t + te)2 + {(4< c >2 )(4< du >2)}2
This is the key to the equation: