Blood types of people doing cohens

[Andy46]

how many blood types are there?

There are 8 different blood types and it will be interesting to see if any blood types are more prone to overweight issues than others.



O+ O- A+ A- B+ B- AB+ AB-


Here is a link to the Red Cross as well - as we all should - if we can donate blood - especially round this time of the year.

http://www.donateblood.com.au/page.a...ataTreeMenu=42

[amouage]

I am B negative, thanks Andy

Am

[huzzalj]

Interesting blood type info

[mcpsych]

andy
doesnt the program say to avoid giving blood while onthe program - i dont have it with me perhaps someone can clarify
cheers
mark

[lil_doll]

yep, it's one of the golden rules, Mark!

I can't remember my blood type... so, sorry... no help here!

xMissy

[soon 2 b slim]

o+ for me....

[Ladybird]

I'm A+

[Ladybird]

As some blood groups are more common than others, this will "skew" the results.
Some definate scientic flaws in this test!!

[mcpsych]

only if the results are reported as absolute values. if andy knows the population figures this can be related to the cohens figures .

[axis]

Oooh I'm a rare-y

AB-

[firefox]

Maybe O+ and A+ people just enjoy doing surveys more than other people do!

[Panda]

Ditto on the sample sizes vs. population incidence of each blood type. This doesn't mean anything I'm afraid.

A comment on blood type though - the O's are meant to be the blood group that respond well to low carb regimes as we date back to the flesh eating hunters way way back. Do maybe O's are more inclined to respond to carbs and all those newfangled foods like bread than other blood types? I'm going to check it out.

[Panda]

According to Wikipedia, here's the distribution (and I can't get a table in so put each column in a different colour.

Blood type World Pop % Australia % Sample % n=68
O+ 36% 40% 31%
A+ 28% 31% 15%
B+ 21% 8% 23%
AB+ 5% 4% 7%
O- 4% 9% 15%
A- 4% 7% 3%
B- 1% 2% 4%
AB- less than 1% 1% 1%

B's concentrate from Central Asian origin, and are low in USA and Australia.
A's concentrate on Montana USA, Aborigines and Northern Scandinavian origins.
O's concentrate in USA and West Europe, particularly those with Celtic ancestry. and very low in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

So that means in our sample we're over represented in the B's and under represented in the O's.

[battler]

interesting statistics! I am 0+ born in the US!

[Panda]

There you go battler - true to type! But did you vote?