"Tom"
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> "Bassos" wrote in message
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>> Heyas,
>>
>> Well, as you may or may not know (attention ftw)
>> I am atm (well in the coming years) comparing birth dates (all set at
>> noon, cos no birth time ffs) with some personality test scores.
>>
>> As things do, it occured to me, that if (big if, i hardly like the
>> prospects) there is some strong correlation found between birtchart and
>> personality; what should be done ?
>
> Have you done a literature search? A number of people have done this
> experiment before.
>
> Bastedo, R.W. (1978). An empirical test of popular astrology. Skeptical
> Inquirer, 3(1), 17-38.
> Culver, R.B. & Ianna, P.A. (1984). Astrology: true or false? Buffalo:
> Prometheus.
> Gauquelin, M. (1982). Zodiac and personality: an empirical study.
> Skeptical Inquirer, 6(3), 57-65.
> Hentschel, U. & Kiessling, M. (1985). Season of birth and personality:
> another instance of noncorrespondence. Journal of Social Psychology,
> 125(5), 577-585.
> McGervey, J.D. (1977). A statistical test of sun-sign astrology. The
> Zetetic, 1(2), 49-54.
> McGrew, J.H. & McFall, R.M. (1990). A scientific inquiry into the validity
> of astrology. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 4(1), 75-83.
> Startup, M. (1984). Personality and planetary positions at birth: an
> attempted replication with ordinary people. Correlation, 4(2), 4-13.
> Tyson, G.A. (1984). An emperical test of the astrological theory of
> personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 5(2), 247-250.
> Van Rooij, J.J.F. (1993). Jungian typology and astrology: an empirical
> test. Correlation, 12(1), 28-32.
It does not look like a list of links discussing the finer details of what
should be done once a definate relationship is found.
Tom : -1, for not reading what i wrote.
>> Oath of Harpocrates : I will do no Harm.
>
> Do your homework. That's "Hippocrates", not "Harpocrates". Harpocrates
> is the hellenized name of the youthful Egyptian god Horus, whose name in
> ancient Egyptian was har-pa-khered, which translates as "Horus the Child".
Weird, eh, that i would make such a mistake ?
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> Hippocrates was a physician from Cos around 440 bce and nobody thought he
> was a god, although lots of people thought he was a pretty good guy. He
> devised an oath for physicians that included a pledge that he would do no
> harm.
>
> I repeat, for emphasis: Do your homework.
But you did not write anything about my suggested oath for astrologers, if
it turns out that it actually works, what this thread is supposed to be
about.
So the question becomes, why did you feel the need to mention all sorts of
irrelevant links to the question ?
And even more importantly, why didn't you respond to the actual question ?
Such noobmistakes, maybe time for a brake ?
