Does Astrology Work? • Hacker News Board

Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by beardyw » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 12:53 PM UTC

lukan wrote: post #13

beardyw wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should update Wikipedia!

I quoted Wikipedia.

Ah, sorry, I've read that article before. Maybe quote your source.

Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by lukan » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 1:16 PM UTC

beardyw wrote: post #21

lukan wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I quoted Wikipedia.

Ah, sorry, I've read that article before. Maybe quote your source.

That source was the literal same article.

Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by Euphorbium » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 2:43 PM UTC

xenospn wrote: post #18

Euphorbium wrote: post #6

Astrology is just calendar. People born a certain time of the year have been exposed to similar conditions when developing, therefore have similar traits. Large scale epigenome analysis could quantify this, but there is no money in this research.

August is a completely different time of year in Singapore vs Newfoundland. There are no similarities.

I think different places have different local astrology traditions.

Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by jmclnx » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 2:48 PM UTC

satisfice wrote: post #17

I am a Gemini. That means my purpose is to develop the technology of operating spacecraft in Earth orbit prior to the Apollo program.

Did you eventually move on to ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by thrill » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:04 PM UTC

beardyw wrote: post #12

lukan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that 3 actual studies about it, turned out to have a different result: "A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[12] A 2018 study of 2,585 ar…

You should update Wikipedia!

I've updated Wikipedia, on a different subject, where I was personally involved in something that was being described completely incorrectly and with significant misconclusion, with no sourcing. It was reverted within minutes. Twice.

Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by satisfice » Sun, Aug 11, 2024, 2:38 AM UTC

jmclnx wrote: post #24

satisfice wrote: post #17

I am a Gemini. That means my purpose is to develop the technology of operating spacecraft in Earth orbit prior to the Apollo program.

Did you eventually move on to ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

Yeah, yeah. You gotta evolve.

Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by EPWN3D » Sun, Aug 11, 2024, 5:34 PM UTC

No.

Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by Mathnerd314 » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:46 PM UTC

tl;dr No, it doesn't work - statistically it's identical to random guessing.

Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:51 PM UTC

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Re: Does Astrology Work?

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Post by SkyBelow » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 1:53 PM UTC

Mathnerd314 wrote: post #28

tl;dr No, it doesn't work - statistically it's identical to random guessing.

Is it equal to random guessing (which isn't fully random) or closer to true randomness? If the latter, can we use it as a PRNG? "Now powered by Astrology" branding, for markets where it would increase sales.