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If you believe you have astrological skill, you can also put yourself to the test by taking the same challenge that we used in the study! We're making this challenge permanently available so that anyone can test their own abilities at any time. At the same link, we also offer a practice test (based on matching celebrities and events to an appropriate chart), which is less scientifically rigorous but can be used to practice before taking the official test. Additionally, we've released the anonymized data from our study, so that anyone who wishes to can analyze the data for themselves.

so some folks did a study to test out the idea that astrology works if you use the whole chart instead of just sun signs or whatever. based on their data it very much does not, & also i'm obsesssed with the cheerfulness with which they say "try it yourself bitch!"


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I want like, any mostly non-professional field like this to answer this question though. I feel like a lot of fields are overperformed by "experienced amateurs". And who is going to say "world class expert" that hasn't already gotten to where they are by sheer bluster?

But either way even the difference between the best and worst performers is less than one correct question lmao, and neatly clustered around the random chance line, so who cares.

the difference between an experienced amateur and a professional is the amateur who keeps coming back has some kind of intrinsic motivation definitionally

but also depth and breadth sort of balance each other when they intersect at a specific narrow topic. (outside of like, medicine, which is a clown show in both directions more often than not........)

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