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This study was a followup to one that just used signs [1], which yielded performance no better than chance. If the summer/winter correlation held, then that stu
by andrewla 2y ago
This study was a followup to one that just used signs [1], which yielded performance no better than chance. If the summer/winter correlation held, then that study would have shown positive results, which it did not.
There's nothing to say that these star charts or seasons of birth cannot correlate with personality traits or life outcomes. But Astrology, as a practice, is not useful for unwinding those correlations. If you have some alternate system, feel free to propose it -- pump the star charts and personality charts from this study into some AI and see if it can come up with some kind of super-astrology, and then try to replicate it.
I doubt you'd find anything stronger than predicting the answer to the question "were you born in the summer or the winter".
[1] https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/we-tested-the-predictive-power-of-astrology-here-are-the-results https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/we-tested-the-predictiv...
- ryandrake 2y agoAlso, summer in one half of the world is winter in the other, so the signs do not correlate 100% with seasons, and you'd have to study across geographies.