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by Michel Gauquelin. Focus pisemka

(...) Michel Gauquelin (recently deceased psychologist and expert astrological) placed in the "Ici Paris" advertisement, offering free personal horoscope. Any interested person sent the same description obtained from the PC based on birth data Doctor Petriota, a notorious murderer from France. Gauquelin asked authorities to respond, or identify with the horoscope sent. Of the 150 respondents 94% claimed that in a good way he summarized their characteristics, and when asked to comment on their friends and family, including 90% of people agreed with the description. (...) How reliable are the predictions of astrologers so? As the scientists involved with this issue, the 3011 group of prophecies published in the pages of American magazines astrological signs in the last few years, worked only 338 (...) when he delivers a lot of predictions, respectively, then some of them certainly will " (Excerpts from article "Astrology, reading of the stars," Focus, June 1996, found on the website Rationalist ).

Now let's look at the whole week wywodowi in more detail, breaking down into parts:

Michel Gauquelin (recently deceased psychologist and expert astrological)

Well Gauquelin was not an expert astrological, astrology, but his enemy, and to his large-scale study was to prove that astrology is a fraud. Ironically, the opposite is proved, although not necessarily consistent with the classical, astrological canon.

sent to each person concerned with the same description obtained from a computer printout

Computer has as much to do with astrology, as a computer printout of the results of the urine with medicine. This is only a summary of various more or less of the essential components of which are built right interpretation. Exactly the same approach with the results of urine analysis: a doctor reads it, compares the results of blood tests, X-ray photograph and many other data, and only on this basis to diagnose.

... description obtained from the computer based on the birth of Dr. Petriota, notorious murderer from France

At the same time and place as Dr. Petiot (not Petriot!) was born for about 10 children, and that means that they were identical horoscopes. As it turned out, in contrast to the doctor Petiota none of them has been a notorious murderer. What does that say? Only that person is not an automatic nor a slave stellar influences, but a free being who decides whether to pursue the path of virtue, or to fight to the very bottom. How many times I wrote: horoscope describes only the potentials of human life is not governed by any determinism. Thus, even if his horoscope interpreted the high-class professional opportunities would not discover that it is doktorek wykolejeńcem. It is very likely that most holders of the horoscope is a very nice and positive people who met their potentials in a positive way.

Gauquelin authorities asked for a response, or identify with the horoscope sent. Of the 150 respondents 94% claimed that in a good way he summarized their characteristics, and when asked to comment on their friends and family, including 90% of people agreed described.

And what it has to provide? For sure it does not refute astrology, because it's not a computer print-astrology (see top). I guess just that people do not know themselves that they have about themselves a lot of illusions, and that it so happened that the archetypal psychological 'building blocks were dissected from the whole in some way fit to their perceptions (or wishes) about them. It is widely known that people do not think that they can not (or do not want them to) read with understanding and that it is easy to suggest or manipulate them. According to with scientific knowledge only about 5 - 10% of the population are people thinking and not given in psychomanipulation. Mindless sheep (94%) confirmed the data from fraudulent horoscope, in contrast to that critical thinking small group (6%), which is also in this study had their own distinct opinions and expressed them. So everything is correct, right?

How reliable are the predictions of astrologers so?

What astrologers? In this study, there was not any astrologers, nor any predictions, but only deeply reluctant psychologist and astrology soulless computer printout containing faked psychological portrait. Equally, we can send these people a description of any type of personality from any psychological test (eg enneagramu). The result would be exactly the same.

As the scientists involved in this issue, the 3011 group of prophecies published in the pages of American magazines astrological signs in the last few years, has proved only 338th

And what's strange? How strange to me is simply that in general there are astrologers who take up the preparation of such forecasts. Predictions for the entire the world or country-specific domain rather clairvoyants and astrologers do not. And why? Because astrological forecast to prepare for someone or something you need to know the exact date, time and place of birth of someone or something , then ... guess what that might come up (because I read that in the horoscope you can not). You may know the man's natal, childbirth assisted if a person with a stopwatch in hand (I know these geeks), you also know the time of opening of the company. But let me who say, how to determine the exact date and time the birth of the state that the whole world does not even mention?