On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: > That's why a statistical test of the sort I outlined ("Take fifty matched > pairs--one a lottery winner, one a victim of a fatal automobile accident. > Give birthday/time/place and event day/time place for each to 200 > professional astrologers [sample size=10,000]. Tell them to identify which > was which in each case. Test the percentage of correct identifications for > statistical significance") is the only way in which a complex model--like > one that claims for the "stars" (the electromagnetic balance of the solar > system) a degree of influence over the course of an individual life--can be > "confirmed" or "disconfirmed." > Shane Mage
This is all well but please get back to us when you have actually done such a study and have something to report. When you make such extraordinary claims, the burden of proof is on you. Until then, I am sorry, but astrology does not even merit being in any grey area. It is pseudo-science and belongs alongside creationism and alchemy. -raghu. -- I like to leave messages *before* the beep. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
