Occult-Theories

A Website examining Astrology and Tarot with an emphasis on empirical statistical approaches to prove or disprove their existence. The Mad Scientist herein resident believes that certain elements of Astrology are true, but these elements may be vastly different than current notions.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Attraction of Specific Signs to Specific Movies

Here's an interesting experiment. Determine whether specific astrological signs are more interested in specific movies than others. This can be done thru your Google profile.

Just go into your Dashboard and enter some specific movie into the "favorite movies" entry. Then you can double-click on it and count how many people of each specific sign indicated this movie as a favorite.

I thought of this when I double-clicked on two of my favorite movies: "12 Monkeys" and "Point of No Return". What was particularly interesting about these two movies is that virtually all of the the "12 Monkeys" fans are males, while virtually all of the "Point of No Return" fans are female. A large number of the females seemed to be Geminis or Aquariuses, two of the more "mental" signs (in more ways than one!).

But you could easily do counts on this and determine whether the astrological signs appearing are statistically significant. I think that you use the Chi-Square test. Right? I took 3 statistics courses in college, but it's been a while.

The results must also be repeatable. After coming to brilliant conclusions, try the test again 3 or 4 more times. See if it remains consistent.

11/1/11: I started to do this experiment, but Google is not very helpful in the way that it draws it's sample. It does not simply give you ALL people in the database who liked the particular movie. Instead, it keeps re-sampling, so it does not give an accurate picture of the total populaton.

Obviously, the percentages of each sign in the TOTAL POPULATION of people who liked that movie is what we want to see. It Google does a re-sample every time you hit "next page", then it doesn't mean diddly-squat.

I sent Google an e-mail about this, but they probably have no idea of what I'm talking about or why.

Try it yourself and you'll see how goofy it is. On the first page it might say 5 of 5000, then on the next page it says 14 of 3000, etc. WTF???

Maybe there's some way that I could access the database myself, altho I doubt it.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Proof of Astrological Energy Gravity 2


Here is another empirical experiment that could prove the existence of astrological energy gravity. My theory of gravitational astrology at it's simplest is as follows: The earth and water signs attract each other, as do the fire and air signs. On the other hand, earth and fire, earth and air, water and fire, and water and air will repel each other.

Consequently, in a large room full of strangers, people composed of specific astrological energies should attract or repel other people based upon those energies.

This should be easy to measure in a purely SCIENTIFIC and OBJECTIVE manner. The attributes of the signs are: Aries-fire, Taurus-Earth, Gemini-air, Cancer-water,Leo-fire, virgo-earth, libra-air, scorpio-water,sag-fire, capricorn-earth,aquarius-air, pisces-water.

Experimental design: Randomly select 500 people. Put them all in a ballroom. Tell them to form into groups of 10. Give them only a minute or two.

Results: My theory is that you will find a STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT grouping of "compatible" astrological signs in the groups. In other words, within each group of 10 people, the horoscopes will show a statistically significant astrological affinity.

The predicted pattern is that FIRE and AIR signs would predominate some groups, while EARTH and WATER signs would predominate others. However, this will occur in a much more than random fashion.

Problems: There are other factors that would interfere with pure energy. For example, people would tend to gravitate toward people who look culturally similar. Another possibility would be to blindfold people.

An interesting alternative experiment would be to lead individual blindfolded people into a room with 15 groups of people, and allow each individual to gravitate toward one of the groups.

The results must be REPEATABLE. In other words, subsequent experiments should give the same results.