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Subject: Re: Verifiable Astrological Phenomenon?
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Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 11:23:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 21 11:23:43 1983
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>>    A psychologist (Belgian, I believe) did a study of the
>> time of birth of superior athletes.  Apparently, there was
>> a significant number of them born under the sign of Mars.
>> It seems that the experiment has been sucessfully repeated
>> using other data.  (As long as one deals only with the
>> "creme de la creme".  It does not seem to work with athletes
>> who are merely excellent.)

For the study to be convincing, it would have to document not only
that a significant number of superior athletes have been born under
the sign of Mars, but also that the *proportion* of good athletes
born under Mars is, statistically, *significantly* higher than
the proportion of people from the general populace born under Mars,
i.e. that the difference is unlikely to be due to sampling errors.
Does anyone have any details about the study?


Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook