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Is Beauty in The Eye of The Beholder? Or in The Blood?
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__**Question**__ Is your blood type in correlation with the way people perceive you, as beautiful or not?

__**Background Information**__ Blood types, also referred to as blood groups, are classified by molecules called agglutinogens. Agglutinogens are a kind of antigen that are attached to the surface of red blood cells. Agglutinogens have two different types, which are types A and B, which create the A, B, AB, and O blood types. These are determined by the presence or absence of certain molecules. RhD antigens determine if the blood type is positive, negative, or neither. The biggest factor in determining a person's blood type is the blood type of their parents. The chart below shows how this works. Blood type is a trait that is passed down from the parents to the child. Other traits that can be passed down include height, disease, and eye color. Over time, it seems, there has been a bit of inadvertent correlation between blood type and beauty, in the form of dieting. The question is, were these diets fad or fact? What happened was this: There had been an idea that since certain diets only worked for some, and not for others, and other diets worked for those people, maybe they just really needed to find a diet for their blood type, and it would work. Though scientists ridiculed this hypothesis, following these specific blood type diets actually worked fabulously for some.Then again, one woman says that she is concerned for people who believe this "blood type diet", and use it. She says there is no scientific backing to the hypothesis, and people should really not buy into this. Dieting can have to do with physical beauty, though. If you follow your blood type diet without even realizing it, are you considered more beautiful to others? What to believe?

The phrase 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' is used constantly, but is it really true? We studied different websites to find out if people believed in this phrase. We got a totally mixed amount of responses. One person said, "Beauty is completely personal. What one thinks is beautiful someone else can think completely opposite. To me something beautiful brings emotion; the Maine coasts, lighthouses, the fall foliage, different works of art, etc." While another said, "Beauty is a human average in the search for standardization due to self consciousness, and can be measured with geometric precision." Another interesting answer that we found was that, "Beauty(human/physical)is totally dependent upon the culture which is defining beauty. That is to say, beauty is entirely subjective, yet not subjective, at the same time. Physical beauty is NOT in the eyes of the beholder, beauty is defined by society." No mater where we looked there was no certain answer to this question.

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__**Hypothesis**__ If we get ten people to tell us their blood types, and show their pictures to ten different people, then their blood type will correlate with how people perceive them, as beautiful or not.

__**Materials**__ **
 * Camera/ USB connector
 * 30 different people
 * Paper
 * Writing utensil
 * Computer with Excel
 * Printer

__**Procedure**__
 * 1) Ask twenty of your friends if they would like to participate in your experiment.
 * 2) From the first twenty participants, get their blood type.
 * 3) Take pictures of each of the first twenty participants.
 * 4) After taking the pictures, hook the camera up to a computer with its USB connector.
 * 5) Print out the pictures.
 * 6) Next, get a set of ten people that don't know the first twenty participants, and show them the pictures of each person, without telling them the person's blood type.
 * 7) Ask the judge not to be biased.
 * 8) Then, ask each judge to tell you whether they find the person beautiful or not.
 * 9) Record your results, and look them over.
 * 10) Come to a conclusion.

__**Experiment**__ Do the experiment

__**Data**__ [|Beauty experiment .xls]

__**Conclusion**__ In our hypothesis we stated that we thought that peoples blood types would correlate to how people receive them. We were correct. Our hypothesis was correct because when we looked over the data that we collected it showed that people that had the O blood type seemed to be thought of as beautiful. In our first chart we organized all the answers that we received from the observers. Then we randomly chose 2 people from each blood group. We added up each blood group's results. In the end the O blood group had the most yeses. If we were to do this experiment again we would change some things. One of them would be how many people were tested. We should have taken a larger sample, but because of time we were not able to. We would need a larger sample because it could have just been luck that the 4 people with O blood were considered beautiful. If we would have tested a 100 people our results would have been more accurate. Another thing we would change is that all of the people would have to take their pictures in the same place. One thing that we wouldn't change is that we still wouldn't tell the observer the person's name or blood type. Overall we had a great time doing this experiment.