Re: [Pen-l] Jared Diamond and the New Yorker, part 2

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

me:
>> to test astrology's validity, I'll tell you all the details about my
>> life (except my birthday and related) and you tell me when I was born.

Shane:
> Astrologers don't do that sort of stage-magic trick.  Anyway, a sample of
> one has very limited statistical significance (nor am I, though literate, a
> competent astrologer).

it's not a stage trick. If astrology can crank out "predictions"
(vague that they are) about X (the stars) causing Y (my life), then
they should be able to predict X based on Y. A chemist can tell pretty
well what chemicals were involved just by looking at the nature of the
reaction, for example.

-- 
Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine
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