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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:42 pm    Post subject: For the blood type skeptics Reply with quote

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200609/200609110032.html
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Blood type may have something to do with stock investment styles and the success of investment, a poll of 1,126 individual investors suggests. The poll was conducted by stock investment portal site Paxnet (paxnet.moneta.co.kr) from Aug. 30 to Sept. 8.
According to the firm, investors with blood type A and AB were more likely to pursue stable investment strategies and were relatively successful in investments, while those with blood type of O and B made more aggressive investments and often lost money.

Out of 394 investors with blood type A, 184 (47 percent) made profit in stock investment, as did 79 out of 173 investors with blood type AB (46 percent). Some 40.7 percent of investors with blood type B and 39 percent of those with blood type O made profit from stock investment.

But 15 percent of investors with blood type A and 13 percent with type AB lost more than half their principal, while 20 percent with type B and 18 percent with type O lost big. Among investors with blood type A and AB, 14 percent and 12 percent made a fortune at an investment return rate of more than 50 percent. But a mere 8 percent and 9 percent among investors with blood type B and O experienced such successful investment.

Type O and B investors were more speculatively inclined, according to the poll. Asked whether they invested on credit over the past year, 55 percent with type O and 49 percent with type B answered that they did, but only 37 percent with type A and 43 percent with type AB said yes. Some 47 percent of investors with blood type B invested in only one item, but only 32 percent of those with blood type AB put all their eggs in one basket.


More reliable Korean news reporting! Laughing
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Last week I had a student write in her English journal:

'I am blood type AB so I am not good. I loathe people with type O (except my father and foreigner teacher'


I tell you, they're the most stuborn people in the world, to be sure, but plant the right idea and their heads and you can convince them of anything.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:39 pm    Post subject: Re: For the blood type skeptics Reply with quote

Adolf Hitler would be proud.
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chimpanzees have Blood Type A. Gorillas have Blood Type B.

Invest with a chimp? Or take risks with a gorilla?

Hmmm...
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jaebea



Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: SYD

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I attribute my susceptibility to fan death to type O blood.

All you type O's beware!

jae.
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Milwaukiedave



Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is one of the Korean myths I find pretty dumb. Korean's also tend to believe blood type has something to do with personality and who you will marry.

When someone finds some conclusive evidence, let me know.
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ilovebdt



Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jaebea wrote:
I attribute my susceptibility to fan death to type O blood.

All you type O's beware!

jae.


Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh Shocked
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blaseblasphemener



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What type of blood does Warren Buffett have?
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kimchi_pizza



Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not only is blood type a concern here, but also if you are a hot blooded or cold blooded person. This has nothing to do with mental state like easily angered or murderous.

It's got more to do with types of food and drinks you like and that it is "good for you". I've been told that I'm cold blooded so that's why I like ginseng tea. I'm not sure if there's any validity, but it is interesting.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ilovebdt wrote:
jaebea wrote:
I attribute my susceptibility to fan death to type O blood.

All you type O's beware!

jae.


Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh Shocked


Are we more susceptable to it?
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ilovebdt



Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
ilovebdt wrote:
jaebea wrote:
I attribute my susceptibility to fan death to type O blood.

All you type O's beware!

jae.


Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh Shocked


Are we more susceptable to it?


Well, I don't have a fan. But, I am not going to tempt fate and buy one Wink

ilovebdt
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Yesanman



Joined: 21 Jun 2006
Location: Chungnam

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Japanese believe it too.
They even have condoms for people of different blood types.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Japanese gave it to the Koreans in the '70s. They in turn got it from the Nazis.
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Corky



Joined: 06 Jan 2004

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A monk tried to explain this to me and my ex-girlfriend once. He told her she had a hot body. Priceless.
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