The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89208   Message #1713415
Posted By: Bill D
08-Apr-06 - 07:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: zodiac/star signs.. do you believe?
Subject: RE: BS: zodiac/star signs.. do you believe?
"...there are connections between real experiences of people and their horoscopes..."

It might be better to say "we can find correlations between.".etc...

and, of course, it is true--we can. We can find many correlations in data that indicate almost nothing. At one time, someone discovered an almost perfect correlation between the rise of salaries of college professors and sales of alcohol in the US. It was fun to make jokes about, but no one, as far as I know, considered it to be either causal OR indicative.

I have looked at my 'charts', and found just as many misleading and non-applicable 'indications' as I did 'relevant' ones. Of course, if someone 'believes', they will just say I need to read deeper and get more learned interpretations.

*shrug* ...first you place the dart, then you draw the bullseye.