Fortune-telling in Japan
I recently found a survey from a new-to-this-blog company, Computer Planning Research Co., Ltd, looking at fortune telling.
Demographics
Over the 30th and 31st of August 2013 500 members of the Computer Planning Research Co., Ltd monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female, and in each age group from twenties to sixties there was 50 male and 50 female respondents. Furthermore all resided within the Kanto area, namely Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma.
I find it quite disappointing that Q2 (see graph) did not have an answer “Both are equally nonsense!”
Given that there are only four blood types but 12 star signs, wouldn’t chance suggest that blood type should be thrice as accurate? Would anyone like to posit an argument as to why we see the results we do?
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