A Sherlockian Poll - any correlation between Bitcoiners and Chinese animals?

I sincerely doubt it, but lets raise some sats for a good cause anyway.
Saturday marks the start of a new year for the people in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam as well as people in the diaspora worldwide.
These people will be celebrating the year of the Dragon.
Outside of these countries, we see people categorized as their zodiac symbol. Which change from month to month.
In China, and those other countries you're associated with the year that you're born - makes sense right?
You'll have a lot more in common with your High School alumni born in the same year than your Great Aunt Bessie who has the same zodiac sign as you.

So what with the Sherlock tie-in?

There's a scene before John Watson's wedding where he's trying to find the connection between lots of women online to solve the mystery of The Mayfly Man.
He figures this mystery out by asking questions to loads of women who have dated this elusive character. To find out what they all had in common - he does so and prevents a murder at the wedding.
For a bit of fun, and raising sats for @anita's work with Bitcoiners in Africa, I'd like to find out whether there's any sort of trend in Chinese zodiac animals over others within our Bitcoin community.
I doubt we'll see any correlation, it is a bit of fun, but who knows - you don't know till you try!
Basically, each of the twelve animals return every twelve years. So a child born today would be born in the year of the dragon, as would a child born twelve years from now. Goddit? Good.
Here's a simplified chart to show the year for each animal in the cycle. So you can see which animal year you were you're born in - it's easy to find out for the vast majority of us; however, if you were born in January, February it's best to check which animal you come under using this link to make sure because the start of the Chinese New Year changes from year to year.
As @k00b and the guys have yet to expand Polls to more than ten choices I've had to ask people who were born in the year of the Dog or Pig to complete the poll here instead.
Have fun, I'll tell everyone the result in the Saloon when poll closes in a couple of days.
Happy New Year guys 🎉
Rat28.6%
Ox7.1%
Tiger7.1%
Rabbit7.1%
Dragon7.1%
Snake7.1%
Horse7.1%
Goat7.1%
Monkey21.4%
Rooster0.0%
14 votes \ poll ended
Metal horse! Yeah baby big Pony with armour! Woohoo let's go!
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Thanks for joining in @Public_N_M_E !
I'm not surprised that you like your metal!
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Some things were just meant to be 🤣
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Born in the year of the monkey - and identify with it. Monkeys are said to be smart and mischievous. Sounds like me as I leap from one metaphorical branch to another haha
Nice that you are doing this for Anita. What does her work involve?
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Oh, oh, oh! You don't know about Anita's work in Africa yet?
She's really on a mission to empower and educate out there. She's teaming up with all the brothers & sisters who are already on a Bitcoin journey, and bringing in a lot more.
She seems really honest and straight-talking without an ax to grind, and welcoming of everyone.
Listen to her podcast - The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only Podcast, which highlights not only Bitcoin in Africa, but most of the developing world - it's also really great, with fantastic guests and, like her book, is very beginner friendly! Talking about her great book it's printed in several languages called '(L)earn Bitcoin'. Anita is also great to follow on Nostr and Twitter
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Thanks for the education. Zapped your post one more time to show my support!
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I'm a 🐀. Among the first on the scene of opportune moments, and among the first to flee when great danger approaches.
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I'm a 🐀. Among the first on the scene of opportune moments
Looks like there's more people born in the year of the rat than any other so far - so what you're saying here makes a lot of sense here in 2024.
Hope you're amassing lots of seeds.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 10 Feb
We’ll increase the poll options to 15.
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Excellent!
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Great post! I'm a pig. Figures
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Although it's, as yet, only a small poll of 16 stackers, I'm a little surprised that three years polled beyond others. It would've been better if the participant pool was bigger to give it any certainty.
4 Rat 4 Monkey (incl. myself) 3 Pig 1 Ox 1 Dragon 1 Snake 1 Goat 0 Tiger 0 Horse 0 Rooster 0 Dog
I'm gonna try and dissect the figures and look up how each year tackle finances and technology tomorrow.
Any help from more knowledgeable stackers from the culturr would be very welcome... So, @cryotosensei - have you any insights at all?
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Tbh I don’t really place too much stock in zodiac signs because a Monkey born in 1980 will surely behave very differently from a Monkey born in 1992 due to generational differences. You know the Gen X vs Gen Y thingy.
It’s interesting what @lv99slacker said about being a rat, though.
I have my biases, though. I’m ENFP and am a great fan of the MBTI theory - about how there are only 16 personalities that roam this earth.
Speaking of which, did you know that Japanese and Korean people believe that their blood type consequently affects their personality?
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@lv99slacker's contribution, mentioning rat traits, made me think about looking into each year's tech & financial characteristics.
Weekends are precious family time for me so I've yet to raise a finger yet on this but I certainly will.
I think most are aware now that the mind who created Holmes was terrible at deduction in the real world.
Conan-Doyle concluded that faked photos of faeries were real and similarly had a big blind spot for automatic writing charlatans.
It's all serendipitous, but I'll introduce Doyle's back-story when I get down to write a follow-up post.
I'm going into this mini-research blind, I don't have any real prior knowledge of this - so hopefully Doyle's story can act as a cautionary tale for me and others when i try and interpret the results while I attempt to keep an objective, open mind.
Here's hoping!
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Saturday marks the start of a new year for the people in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam
Not actually true for Japan, Cambodia and Thailand.
In Japan, they celebrate New Year's Day (元日, Ganjitsu) on January 1st. The date for celebration of the new year was changed soon after the Meiji Restoration and the traditional festivities that were practiced on the 1st day of the Japanese lunarsolar calendar were transferred to January 1st. (I once mentioned this in conversation with a very tradition-minded Japanese friend; she didn't know about the change of date, was shocked and initially in disbelief until she checked it for herself and was shaken to realise that there was a discontinuity in the date used for the traditional celebrations).
In Thailand New Year's Day (Songkran) is always on April 13 and in Cambodia it is on April 13 or 14. These two countries have been influenced by the Hindu Calendar and April 13 marks the day when the sun (approximately) enters the Hindu equivalent of Aries, according to the sidereal zodiac system.
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Thanks for the info dude.
I knew that Tibetan New Year and Chinese new year don't always align, this year it does, but not always.
But I didn't know it might be the same with the others, so a big thanks to you for your heads-up.
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I'd like to be Human
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