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Thread #131480 Message #2967095
Posted By: Amos
17-Aug-10 - 10:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: God balances the books
Subject: RE: BS: God balances the books
Not to be too much of a Day about it, the confirmation bias is always a risk when observing a correlation between something put out in the universe, and some event occurring which you attribute to that something. I am completely sure that generating impulses into the universe of thought makes a difference, but I have gradually learned to mistrust my filters which tend to find correlations by ignoring the uncorrelated data.
When someone tells you why your personality is defined by the hour and place of your birth it is easy, if you are so inclined, to find all the correlations that demonstrate theproof. But you alsohave to ignore all the instances you've encountered where the correlation didn't hold true and the nominal Virgo acted like a Taurus.