pwisaguacate wrote:Applegate wrote:enta wrote:No, they base it on your personality, how you act or you keep your things. I seem to act like type A a lot.
I think this blood type stuff is only known in Japan?
Probably. Could you explain how it works for me?
It's predominant in Japan but is also popular in other places including Taiwan and South Korea. Googling "blood type cultural" returns me many entries pointing to Japan on personality traits associated with blood type:
[wiki] [Japan Today]
While the idea may be interesting, blood typing often leads to discrimination:
[Scientific American]
"What's your blood type?" is like an Eastern counterpart of "What's your sign?"
If you assign points to them, adding 1 point for each one that kind of matches, two for one that is spot on and the reverse for things that don't really match, and things that are completely wrong, if the person doesn't fall one way or the other, I won't add or subtract anything.
I don't believe in blood type corresponding to personality, my close family are
ALL A- my grandmother, my parents, my 3 sisters.......
I am the antithesis of an A, I correspond to 2 out of 10 traits, and of the remaining 8, 5 (or a synonym of them) appear on the list of words least likely to describe me, it was a thing we did and you could only list 7 words, and they were voted on......
My A score: -4
My B score: 8
My AB score: 5
My O score: 7
My mother corresponds comparatively well to it, matching 6 out of 10, to a fair degree, but not much more than your average person. And she is
definitely not reserved or patient and she is slightly less responsible and sensible than average.
A score: 1
B score: 2
AB score: -1
O score: 8
Getting kind of bored:
My 16 year old sister is stubborn, but that's pretty much it.
My dad matches very well
My 14 year old sister is earnest and can be overearnest, but that's pretty much it.
Basically apart from my dad,
everyone else would have scored more accurately as a B. It would probably have done better by chance
My older sister is fairly similar to me. Also most European people, as far as I know tend towards A or O, I know basically no Bs and blood type varies more upon location and genetics than personality, it seems odd that whole nations of people have certain personality types they tend towards, especially when these are fairly dissimilar and so are unlikely to be due to cultural influence.
So, I don't really believe in it, also with the whole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect everyone has some extent of all of those personality traits in them