This past fall the Behavioral Genetics class at Carleton College undertook a project inspired by the book Eat Right For Your Type. The book claims that you should choose your diet based upon your blood type and that you should have a natural preference for certain types of food. We set about testing the theories presented in the book using a population of students, staff and faculty at Carleton College. Our study focused upon the food aversions of A and O blood types. We authored a survey asking the participant's blood type and several diet preference questions and analyzed the results using a chi-squared test.

What's Here?

• Blood Type Survey
• Results

• Eugenics Archive
• Two Views of The Bell Curve

• Matt Rand - mrand@carleton.edu
• Stephen Zweifel - szweifel@carleton.edu

Last modified January 21, 2001 by Matthew Lowe
Matthew.Lowe@alumni.carleton.edu