Re: Skewering stilted language and theory: F. Crews

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] Skewering stilted language and theory: F. Crews

 No, I'm more fishy than that.
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Perelman
To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 6/12/2003 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Skewering stilted language and theory: F. Crews

Jim D. must be a Libra.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 07:02:45AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
>
> the predictions of astrology are too vague to be tested or falsified.
> (They're much vaguer than those of Milton Friedman's codification of
> monetarism, for example, which currently is seen as largely falsified
by
> mainstream macroeconomics.) A real test would be to reverse the normal
> astrological process, predicting one's birthday -- or, easier, one's
sign --
> based on personality tests and the like. (No google searches allowed.)
>
> Jim

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