Thread: Astrology and Personality Tests

An obvious problem with this test is most of us already know something about astrology, which will change our perceptions of ourselves and bias our test results.

If a person was going to try to 'prove' something along similar lines, one approach would be to look at biorhythms. There its relatively easy to do a blind test because interactions with other people depend on both people's birthdays, which don't have to be known by both people. I looked at this a long time ago for about 15 people I knew and got statistically strong results, but it might not hold up for people in general. The same thing could be done with astrology, having one person make predictions about someone else's birthday based on their behavior, but astrology is a lot more complicated.

Anyone who has a research or statistical background and is interested in formal research on this topic, please let me know. I have some experience with both formal research and statistical analysis and it would be great to connect with someone who has similar training and an interest in this topic.

Originally Posted by shadowofwind

An obvious problem with this test is most of us already know something about astrology, which will change our perceptions of ourselves and bias our test results.

If a person was going to try to 'prove' something along similar lines, one approach would be to look at biorhythms. There its relatively easy to do a blind test because interactions with other people depend on both people's birthdays, which don't have to be known by both people. I looked at this a long time ago for about 15 people I knew and got statistically strong results, but it might not hold up for people in general. The same thing could be done with astrology, having one person make predictions about someone else's birthday based on their behavior, but astrology is a lot more complicated.

This has been tried unsuccessfully, but I believe if one thinks that astrology's validity would be based on your ability to guess their birthday based on their personality, they have an erroneous view of what astrology is.

Originally Posted by Original Poster

This has been tried unsuccessfully, but I believe if one thinks that astrology's validity would be based on your ability to guess their birthday based on their personality, they have an erroneous view of what astrology is.

You should work on your reading comprehension.

Originally Posted by shadowofwind

An obvious problem with this test is most of us already know something about astrology, which will change our perceptions of ourselves and bias our test results.

If a person was going to try to 'prove' something along similar lines, one approach would be to look at biorhythms. There its relatively easy to do a blind test because interactions with other people depend on both people's birthdays, which don't have to be known by both people. I looked at this a long time ago for about 15 people I knew and got statistically strong results, but it might not hold up for people in general. The same thing could be done with astrology, having one person make predictions about someone else's birthday based on their behavior, but astrology is a lot more complicated.

Astrology is never mastered. Computer generated results are basically meaningless. And focusing on just the Sun never works.