Astrology is fake

The best studies are those that critically assess things everyone already knows. A new study has joined the genre, this time proving once and for all that astrology is fake.

We can compare how frequently astrologers got different numbers of questions correct to how often we’d expect them to get different numbers correct if they were all guessing totally at random with no skill.

The two distributions match very closely. pic.twitter.com/Xd7Q9VIArl

— Spencer Greenberg (@SpencrGreenberg) August 11, 2024

Past studies on the subject have been overly simplistic in the eyes of the astrology community — for example, using mere zodiac signs, a form of “tabloid astrology”. The new study, designed with the help of real astrologers, had astrologers predict people’s full natal charts based on a suite of personal information. Their predictions, to no one’s surprise, were as accurate as random guesses. Will any horoscope fans change their minds?

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