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@Aella_Girl
Been getting a lot of "how can you criticize astrology if you haven't studied it?" Well, I similarly think flat earth theory is ridiculous without knowing all their complicated arguments. If a theory violates extremely basic scientific knowledge, the details don't matter.
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@Aella_Girl
Ofc not saying it *can't* be true; there's a tiny possibility the earth is actually flat; but I'm not going to spend time deeply studying the details of every ridiculous theory out there before I criticize it.
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@Aella_Girl
There's things that could happen that would bump up a ridiculous theory from "extremely unlikely" to "mostly unlikely" and maybe make it qualify for time spent studying it in depth; like if someone was even slightly able to predict an astrology chart, that'd make me doubletake.
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@Aella_Girl
in fact there's several concrete things that would make me go "hm, this is actually surprising, i think i might have been wrong here" and NONE of those concrete things are in the category of "studying astrology more in depth" A list of concrete things that would change my mind:
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@Aella_Girl
1. i ask 200 people who havent seen their birth chart description to pick the one out of two that matches them. a success rate meaningfully higher than 50% (id preregister the number, just gotta calculate it first) would make me go hmmmmm
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Hotel’s On Fire
@HotelsOnFire
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@Aella_Girl
This is great! A couple snags: 1) you’re asking for 200 people who are aware of and willing to share their emotional, ego-based, intellectual and social faculties, and nobody has “just one sign”. Maybe if they were asked to pick out the sign they think most represents themselves,
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@Aella_Girl
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oh i was thinking like, you generate a birth chart based on their real birth date/time, and then another one that's picked from a totally random birth date/time, and then have them choose which one they feel describes them better