"Bassos" wrote in message
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> "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.
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> It does not look like a list of links discussing the finer details of what
> should be done once a definate relationship is found.
That's because it's *not* a list of links. It's a list of citations of
published reports on experiments very similar to the one you claim to be
doing "atm" perhaps or "in the coming years". Doing a literature search
means looking up published articles reporting on experiments like the one
you want to do. That way, you're not just duplicating stuff that's already
been done and getting some idea on how to construct an experiment that will
actually break some new ground. Your lack of interest in doing such a
search indicates that it's likely that this is not what you want to do. It
looks like what you want to do is pretend to do some research so that you
can use your "results" to prop up your bogus claims for the predictive
validity of your astrological readings.
I keep telling you to do your homework. Perhaps someday you will, but not
now.
>>> 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 ?
No, it's not weird at all. The fact that you don't do your homework
virtually ensures that you'll make such mistakes quite often.
> 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.
All it does is give astrologers something else to be hypocritical about.
