SlayerofCliffracers
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Really? And you are basing this judgement on what, exactly?
The fact that I demolish anything that I can actually understand with such ridiculous ease of course. I just said it. It's just a load of waffle strung together because it looks impressive.
Incorrect. There are many characteristics of people that occur at rates much higher than chance, such as recovering from uknown diseases. Lethal illnesses are acutally fairly rare. This is why to be statistically significant, it must occur much greater than chance, and it must be reliably repeatable (something that never happened with Sach's results).
It gets even worse when you are talking about personality traits that are self-reported. If I were to ask 100 people selected at random if they consider themselves to be stubborn, do you think the results would be 50% yes/no? Do you think it would be 1 in 12 (matching sun signs)? What happens if you ask them if they consider themselves to be stubborn on occasion?
Repeatable using the same data or different data? Because given the presence of slow moving outer planets known and unknown and the aspect relationships of these planets to the Sun, it is invalid to draw conclusions from test anything except the exact same age-group.
And on certain things, like for instance careers one cannot necceserily expect complete cross-cultural agreement, because the different perceptions of for instance the same career in different cultures could, given the necceserily indirect nature of the connections between planets and concrete results skew the results.
It gets worst when we are talking about crime and suicide, one could expect particular cultures to have become dominated by particular signs and to make the opposite signs rather unhappy and react accordingly.
As for your question I obviously don't know. What one would have to do would be to do a survey to establish what % of random people give what answer to the question. Once you've established the % that says yes and got your average % bit gets trickier.
And then you have to make the following traditional Astrological prediction that seriously needs testing.
Fixed signs should report they are stubborn more than average. These are.
Leo, Tauros, Aquarius and Scorpio.
Mutable signs should report they are stubborn less than average. These are.
Saggitarius, Gemini, Virgo and Pisces.
Each sign would of course be recorded seperately. The average response for people according to their signs would have to be then worked out. And having done that the results would have to be compared to the average.
The trouble is that it isn't cast iron, because people tend to overate or underate their own 'flaws'. The overating and underating may well cancel each other creating a Neutral result that is actually false.