Blood Type Online Test

Posted on 16. Oct, 2006 @ 10:15 am by in Culture Views: 748

As you may have heard, in Japan a person’s blood type is said to say a lot about their personality.

There is a short online personality test you can take to check if the test results match your actual blood type. I have roughly translated the test questions into English below if you want to try.

Here are my results! I’m type A.

This English website explains the general characteristics for each blood type briefly.

This Japanese website explains the characteristics of the different blood types in detail. It describes the personality each blood type provides for boys and girls. The site describes character traits and and life views in categories such as work, spending habits, love, sex, marriage, and general character.

Blood Type Test Questions!
In the right hand columns, the radio button on the left is YES (true) and radio button on the right is NO (false). Once you finish, click the button on the left (結果) at the bottom of the page to get your results.

1. Are you outgoing?
2. Do you care about your past behavior?
3. In a discussion with multiple people, do you usually end up summarizing the situation for everyone?
4. Are you usually on time?
5. You don’t think about thinks deeply.
6. You’re “cool”, as in, relaxed and not overly excitable.
7. The end result is important, but the process is also important.
8. You don’t show your emotions easily.
9. You think realistically.
10. You are gentle, quiet, calm.
11. Sometimes you think of yourself as a great, excellent person.
12. You are one to follow the rules.
13. You are one to strictly follow the rules.
14. You tend to have a strong, narrow enthusiasm for one thing.
15. You are a confident person.
16. You enjoy a conversation with only your close friends.
17. You can do a simple task for long periods of time without getting bored.
18. Other people can easily understand your personality.

  • ginpei

    hey harvey!!what’s up??
    here my results
    調査結果

    A型度110%
    B型度67%
    O型度81%
    AB型度89%

    性格から見たあなたの血液型は
    A型です

    this test said I’m typeA,but my actual blood type is O.
    most japanese,especially girls,like to know about blood type,you know
    how about american people??

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Hey ginpei!

    Hrm so the test missed your blood type. Hrm…

    To generalize I would say Americans usually don’t even know their bloodtype, and it rarely comes up in conversation…

    I was really surprised when everyone in Japan started asking me that.

    I heard that in China and Korea the bloodtype-personality thing is popular as well.

  • Vince

    Why is it popular? What does blood type has to do with personality?

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Vince,

    From a western perspective, blood type has absolutely nothing to do with personality.

    However, in Japan, and actually I believe China, Taiwan, and Korea as well, someone’s blood type is believed to say a lot about their personality.

    In Japan, the “blood type” question is even more common than “so what’s your sign? (as in astrology)” in the US.

    For example if a Japanese person notices that you’re extremely neat, one day they may say, “hey, are you blood type A?” Or something to that effect.

    See what I mean? Hope that helps!

    - Harvey

  • gsdafghjhj

    so how is it different than skin color, or hair color, or eye color, or sex?

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Well, hair color in Japan isn’t usually discussed in relation to someones personality… For obvious reasons I guess, everyone has black hair!

    Skin color, pretty much same boat. Though there is a common feeling that the whiter your skin is in Japan, the more pretty you are. This applies to girls only.

    Eye color, pretty much everyone has dark brown eyes.

    Sex, the stereotypes for the sexes in Japan are pretty much the same as in the west, only amplified a bit to be more extreme.

    You know how in the US we say that.. Umm… Hrm what do we have…

    Well you know how some people are hardcore about astrology, and claim to understand aspects of a persons personality by the month they were born? Blood type is similar to that. No scientific background, (though some Japanese would disagree with me on that) but it’s common knowledge.

    I have babbled.

  • asdghadfh

    i didn’t mean why don’t the japanese also use those traits in japan; i was pointing out that in the west people used to say an individual’s traits were linked to unrelated genetic traits, such as skin color(racism), hair color(i.e. dumb blondes), etc. proposing that one can tell an individual’s personality by genetics, especially by only one tiny piece of their whole genetic makeup, is insane.
    this is different from the insanity of astrology, as that makes a point of being nonscientific and mystic, but blood type, or skin color, or any other such things tries to hide behind science

  • http://pixelscribbles.com/journal Heather Meadows

    A型度92%
    B型度81%
    O型度89%
    AB型度105%

    I’m actually A…but I was confused as to how to answer some of the questions. For example, I am not immediately outgoing, but once I’m comfortable in a situation I’m very outgoing. (I used to not be outgoing at all.)

    I’ve known my blood type since I was a kid, because my mom thought it was an important thing for us to know. In case we ever needed transfusions, I guess.

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