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TheBig3 07-12-2010 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 897961)
Cancer, suits me also :laughing:

thats uh...an interested statement. I've always seen myself as more of a typhoid.

Tea Supremacist 07-12-2010 10:05 AM

I'm skeptical of horoscopes anyway, but the whole finding out your personality based on star sign/birth year/earth sign, etc, escapes me somewhat. I already know what my personality is...:confused:

duga 07-12-2010 10:14 AM

I'm a pisces.

I'm not sure how much I buy into it, but I have done a lot of thinking about this stuff. As some people have mentioned, there are times when one of these descriptions seem to nail it in a more than coincidence kind of way. Being a scientist, I decided I had to try to come up with some theory as to how this might work out. So here it is...if you think it's stupid, that's fine. It's just some random bull**** I thought up one day that seemed to make a bit of sense.

These signs are based on the time of the year you are born meaning it depends on where the Earth is in relation to the sun. The gravitational pull from the moon and the sun varies by small degrees at different points in the year (since the Earth does not move around the sun in a perfect circle...not to mention the tilt of the axis). We already know something as minor as a pressure change can affect us (old people complaining about their joints, for example)...gravity sure as hell would have an effect. I'm thinking it might influence brain chemistry in some way.

Janszoon 07-12-2010 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by duga (Post 898652)
I'm a pisces.

I'm not sure how much I buy into it, but I have done a lot of thinking about this stuff. As some people have mentioned, there are times when one of these descriptions seem to nail it in a more than coincidence kind of way. Being a scientist, I decided I had to try to come up with some theory as to how this might work out. So here it is...if you think it's stupid, that's fine. It's just some random bull**** I thought up one day that seemed to make a bit of sense.

These signs are based on the time of the year you are born meaning it depends on where the Earth is in relation to the sun. The gravitational pull from the moon and the sun varies by small degrees at different points in the year (since the Earth does not move around the sun in a perfect circle...not to mention the tilt of the axis). We already know something as minor as a pressure change can affect us (old people complaining about their joints, for example)...gravity sure as hell would have an effect. I'm thinking it might influence brain chemistry in some way.

I have a different science-based theory to explain it: confirmation bias.

duga 07-12-2010 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 898655)
I have a different science-based theory to explain it: confirmation bias.

Yeah, ok...I did say you didn't have to take it seriously. I was just sharing.

Janszoon 07-12-2010 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by duga (Post 898661)
Yeah, ok...I did say you didn't have to take it seriously. I was just sharing.

I was just being a wiseass. :)

I do think confirmation bias has a lot to do with it though.

boo boo 07-12-2010 11:03 AM

Confirmation biass can be pretty dangerous as everyone knows, it's what can put innocent people on death roll. And it's a vital element of the cold reading technique that so called phychics and mediums use to scam people.

Dulce 07-28-2013 01:56 AM

Cancer girl in love with a Capricorn dude.


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