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Carl Sagan on horoscopes

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm paraphrasing here, but when talking about horoscopes, Carl Sagan summarised them like this:

The idea behind horoscopes is that the way the planets were aligned when you were born affects you. The only way this could actually be true is if it was their respective pulls of gravity against your body while being born.

Then he pointed out that the gravitational pull of the obstetrician that delivered you far outweighed that of any celestial body.

Horoscope test...

[Dr. Zowie]

Not long ago I was teaching introductory astronomy to 180 college freshmen, and we did the "James Randi" demonstration. It was almost surprising how well it worked. I browsed to a horoscope site and downloaded horoscopes for everyone. Printed them up in little folding booklets, 12 types, about 4/3 as many as there were students. Asked the students to come get their horoscope and read it secretly.

Then they voted on how well-tailored their horoscopes were. About 80% of the class said that the horoscopes were "perfect" or "very good", with about 10% "good" and only 10% saying "fair" or "poor".

Of course, the kicker is that they all received exactly the same horoscope, I believe an Aquarius reading for early spring 2002.

Even more of course, the site I got them from advertised that "we don't produce generic horoscopes -- we tailor them specifically to your date of birth!"

Astrological signs not all BS

[thaddjuice]

One of things that a lot of people don't consider about astrology is that there is a good reason why people of the same signs may have similar personality traits. People who were born at the same time of the year have had various seasons and events happen at the same key points in early development. So, people born right after Christmas in January may have different perspectives on the importance of family, friends, and holidays (their birthdays being near the holidays) than someone born in June. Also, can anyone say what difference it might make in a child's development if it's snowing when they're learning to walk vs. heat of summer?

I'm not saying this means that you can tell their future based on when they're born, but there may be something to the idea that people of like signs have similar personalities and that relationship compatibility may be tied in to zodiak sign.