"Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers"

[agluszak]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1822663687145972105.html

[dang]

This has been posted a few times in various formats. I merged the comments into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208252.

[newsuser]

I'm suprised the post and comments here do not cite the famous Nature paper by S. Carlson - "A Double-blind Test of Astrology" - which performed a very similar experiment 40 years ago.

(and yes, astrology didn't work back then too)

[1] https://muller.lbl.gov/papers/Astrology-Carlson.pdf

[dredmorbius → newsuser]

You might want to post that to <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208252>.

[bufferoverflow]

"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people"

No amount of studies will change the mind of people who fall for woo. Because they believe what they want to believe, not what's likely true.