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Aug 18, 2020

Here's a fun game: Have a friend sometimes mix up/change your cards before looking at them (don't tell you when). See where the correct predictions happen. Do they happen more often w/ true cards than fake ones? Way more fun than "stastical significance."

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Aug 18, 2020

similarly a thing i wish astrologers would do is "pen test" each other by deliberately providing fake natal charts and see if other astrologers can tell

Mark

@meditationstuff

Aug 18, 2020

This has been done!!!! It was a whole thing, and as far as I know the results were disastrous, but I could be wrong about that.

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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huh disastrous how?

4:37 AM · Aug 18, 2020Twitter Web App

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The result afaik is that astrology is random noise. Again I could be wrong about this.

Mark

@meditationstuff

Aug 18, 2020

As in astrologers couldn’t even pick out their own chart readings or some such. I don’t know enough about how it works to remember but I think at least the design of the experiment was in good faith.

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