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How is static electricity charge distributed over the human body if skin (1100 - 496,000 ohms) is a good insulator? For example, if one wears rubber-soled shoes and walks around on a rug, the shoes will obtain a negative charge. Then, if one touches a doorknob or some other metal object, a spark can result. My question is if charge is migrating from the shoes and being distributed throughout the body, or is the charge on the shoes creating an electric field that is inducing a negative charge in other parts of the body, such as the hands, which discharges to a grounded object? Is there a current or simply an induced charge?