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From: FtG@rochester.UUCP (FtG)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Verifiable Astrological Phenomenon?
Message-ID: <2339@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 09:28:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 21 09:28:33 1983
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The problem with the study relating athletes and their horoscopes
is that it is a classical example of the raindrop effect.
You take a small sample, consider a lot of possible relationships,
and voila! At least one surprising relationship will correlate.
Magicians do this all the time by asking an audience member to
name a card and presto, he pulls a sealed envelope out of his
hat/ coat pocket/ shoe/ etc. that contains exactly that card.
Since he never said ahead of time where he was going to get
the envelope, he's free to pick the right one.

It's amazing how much psuedo-science can be explained with very
little knowledge of stage magic.
				FtG