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I unapologetically view people who literally believe the stars/planets can predict unrelated things on earth as uniquely bad at thinking (moreso than many other strange beliefs) But if you don't literally believe this, then astrology seems like it could be really cool. 1/

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I’ve been watching this topic over the past week or so and wanted to chime in. I’m a skeptical and scientific person by nature. When I first started looking at astrology (and tarot) I thought they were new-age bullshit. However I’ve changed my stance…

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I think that in ways that are far more than coincidence or confirmation bias, astrological descriptions of people are spookily accurate. And not the short cheesy newspaper variety but the detailed chart readings that delve into way more detail. I’m not a “believer” in astrology..

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i talked with a professional astrologer about designing a test and if i understood correctly he said that the computer-generated charts (where you put in birth time and it gives you a big description) would be no better than chance at predicting personality traits or whatever

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And I would love to see such a study done. Of nearly all of the astrological charts I have read for myself and those close to me, there is no way that random chance could explain the detailed description of personality traits. Again I don’t understand how it works, but it does.

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you should try it yourself next time; instead of suggesting a friend (who's fully unfamiliar with astrology) read their birth chart, ask their birth time and then provide the friend with 3 charts and ask them to guess

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i once hung out with a few friends and we all generated the birth charts but didn't know whose was whose, and we read them all together and tried to assign the right birth chart to the right person; when we checked the real charts we'd assigned all of them wrong

9:33 PM · Dec 29, 2021