血液型性格分類 研究 Blood Type vs. Personality Experiment

In Japan and Korea many people believe that blood type determines personality.
After doing an analysis of variance on 1500 mixi profiles, I got a representative sample of the population (excluding age) and found no difference at all between blood type and number of friends.

These ideas were mostly created from scientific racism in 1920s/30s Japan and Germany (See Wikipedia link below).

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Here is a good spoken debunk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5Ic3dCH8U

Wikipedia also has a good page about blood types in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture

And in Korea
http://www.korea4expats.com/article-blood-types.html

A Japanese guy complaining about it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ctn9LgluU&feature=related
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Over the years this issue has slowly been creeping into the west, e.g. Weight loss diets targeted to individual blood types.

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[ArturoYamashita]

Classification by blood type leads a discrimination. Hitler determine his blood type as A and he labeled Jewish blood type B which is inferior to A. So, this is a discrimination where the blood type B or AB is a minority.

[RaymondCorrigan]

@ArturoYamashita

Thankyou, I appreciate the Japanese support.

It always sounds extreme when you link something to Hitler. But in this case you're right. Blood type discrimination started as a way to support racism in Nazi Germany. The Japanese army used it in the same way, and bura-hara is still a very real thing in Japan.

[RisuMiso]

Interesting video and data!

[RaymondCorrigan]

@RisuMiso

Thanks, your video helped me to think of this.

[TheTinySaint]

Brilliant. I am constantly amazed at how much information is sitting around on the net waiting to be put to new and unique use. That is why a subscribed to you to begin with.

[RaymondCorrigan]

@TheTinySaint

Yep, so much data... So little time.

Thanks for sticking around so long!

[AlternateAlternative]

I know for convenience you used those who only had a number, but I'm not sure whether you said or not, but those who decided to customize their own url should be included. Your sample otherwise would not be 100% representative because you only chose the people who were either too lazy to change it or just didn't know. But alas it can't be perfect considering you would also have to think about the people who don't have one, so it's to be said you are just representing the mixi population.

[ArturoYamashita]

@RaymondCorrigan No problem! and yes, what you say is correct, there still are people who want to spread discrimination by blood in Japan. That can be taken as just a joke by mature people, but the publisher's intention is actually in a different place.

[lyndaen]

I can't believe I followed all that. School wasn't useless after all!

[RaymondCorrigan]

Thanks for the idea,

A group of young males would have about 500 members. Based on `response rates` I should have about 250 `participants`, which isn`t bad.

Actually, I could just do the same analysis controlling for the variables age and sex. That way the computer will compare blood types between people after accounting for differences.

I`m using a pretty weak open source statistics program now (PSPP). Next time I have access to something more powerful, like SPSS, I`ll give that a shot.