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The interesting thing about astrology is that there probably ARE personality differences between, say, a cohort who were the youngest at school versus the oldes
by alasdair_ 4y ago
The interesting thing about astrology is that there probably ARE personality differences between, say, a cohort who were the youngest at school versus the oldest, or who just made the cutoff point for a sports team for the year versus those who were almost a year older. Those small differences can become magnified (e.g. Malcolm Gladwell's essay on why most Hockey players were born in December - they are older, so they look like they are more competent, so they get more training, so they become more competent).
Even things like the amount of exposure to sunlight in early years may influence personality. Would be an interesting thing to look at, skipping all the woo stuff about planetary alignment etc.
- robbiep 4y agoThat’s not really an interesting thing about astrology though, is it? That’s an interesting hypothesis about if or why or how people’s personalities may vary. Which is easily searchable - for example, results for ‘MBTI distribution by birth month’ show no correlation, which I would think would be a reasonable way of getting to the start of this answer. I also tried searching for distribution of astrological signs by birth month and it was weird but there was a 1:1 distribution (… I joke) But the fact you didn’t investigate this and jumped straight to support of astrology clearly pegs you as a Virgo