I’ve never believed in astrology, but we Scorpios are naturally skeptical.
You’re a Scorpio? No wonder I couldn’t trust you. Sagittariuses and Scorpios are natural enemies. Like Sagittariuses and Cancers. Or Sagittariuses and other Sagittariuses. Dammit Sagittarius! You ruined astrology!!
You Sagittariuses sure are a contentious people!
You just made an enemy for life!
I’m not sure I believe that.
For those that prefer the source instead of a screenshot: https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/762475130013237248
Thank you very much. This sort of thing needs to be sourced.
I wonder what kind of person calls themselves a “world class expert” in astrology.
Probably exactly the kind you’d expect.
The stars of the profession?
People you shouldn’t trust.
People with planet sized egos?
Looks like technically any of us can.
An astrologist. 🤣
My sister. Last year she begged me to do my charts for the next year. Said I would be happily married and on my way to the EU in a new job.
I’m divorced and unemployed. But hey, good news is she’ll do my charts over.
Does “fucked off” mean “pissed off” in some vernacular? Not sure I’ve seen/heard that before.
Yeah Bri’ish
Gotcha. Is it a new usage? I wouldn’t say my british slang stays super up to date necessarily… maybe I forgot this one, but I don’t remember seeing/hearing it in the past.
Australian here, heard it all my life. Also, in our dialect you can use fuck to mean pretty much anything, as long as it’s clear from context what sentiment you’re going for
Haha alright. Yeah same in America, sort of. “fucked off” would always mean “left” for us though
As long as I can remember, so not a new thing
I wonder if there is some benefit from the clients interpretation of the reading, even though the reading itself is nonsense. In the same way someone can flip a coin to help you make a decision, and you realise from your gut reaction what you actually wanted to do all along, but weren’t consciously aware of
I used to work in a shop that could easily be described as “New Age” and it has a tarot reader there. Having looked at the history of tarot but being a complete sceptic, I asked for a reading one time to see for myself how they go.
Afterwards I asked her “it’s a light therapy session, isn’t it?” She responded “mostly.”
That’s pretty much what it is, cheap, basic therapy to help you sort through your thoughts, and shares some similarities with CBT. I’d still recommend therapy if you need it, but I don’t mind people going to a tarot reader if that’s what helps them. But I still think the mysticism side of it can be a problem for a variety of reasons.
this is definitely the answer, and i don’t get why people are so aggressive about shitting on people who just want a bit of fake mysticism in their lives. literally not hurting anyone to look at the stars and feel stuff
Nah, you can’t reason someone out of a belief they weren’t reasoned into.
I don’t think that’s true, and I don’t think you really believe that either…
But I believe it after testing the hypothesis multiple times!
Is that a reference to that tweeter thread about it?
Honestly?
No.
The original comment was “you can’t reason someone out of a belief they weren’t reasoned into” and I was just playing on that by trying to reason them out of the belief that you can’t reason someone out of a belief…
Or at least suggest that you can reason someone out of a belief they weren’t reasoned into. Because it seems within reason that you can reason someone out of a belief they weren’t reasoned into and the reason I suggest that is it seems perfectly reasonable.
(Yeah – sometimes I just get bored and want to see how long I can keep a sentence going and use the same word in it before it breaks down into total chaos).
Here is a clip of James Randi doing the ‘individualized’ horoscopes for a room full of people. I think this is the experiment mentioned in the image.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dp2Zqk8vHw&pp=ygUVamFtZXMgcmFuZGkgYXN0cm9sb2d5
Obviously biased. Every astrologer is a world leading expert. That’s just a true and correct fact. Where are the error bars? Why not use violin plots? Correct science is what will prove astrology correct. I know that because I’m a Leo. Seriously, astrology is important for weeding out tinder profiles.
Wait, they all did 5 out of 12? That means you can make statistical predictions with astrology by selecting the opposite of what the astrologer predicts!
yeah truth hurts
I jokingly trolled an astrology forum that were giving their predictions for 2020 with “hindsight is 2020”
You’d think they would have seen that coming
Necessary work. However, that last instructon isn’t science, it’s education.
Barnum Statement
What on earth does this mean? I’m not a world-class expert in mathology but I’ve never seen this kind of relative comparison before.
None of the 152 people in the trial correctly guessed correctly on more than 5 profiles, out of the 12 profiles they were given.
I think they just left off the subject of each phrase; 0 out of 152 astrologists did better than 5 out of 12 questions. Though it is phrased weirdly either way.
Well I suppose what they’re saying is no response had a success rate equal to or greater than fifty percent, but yeah it’s not exactly reported academically.
Because astrology is something that lends itself to clear academic reporting?
