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Because you would have said I was lying then too, and it wasn't relevant. Because my position wasn't that astrology is accurate. My position was that not every horoscope is vague enough to apply to anyone.
Have you considered that the differences in horoscope generation? Did the study control from different astrologers, difference in methods, difference in detail?
None of which is relevant, because, again, my statement wasn't that astrology is accurate. My statement was that not every horoscope is vague enough to apply to anyone. If there exists one single horoscope which excludes one single person, the statement "All horoscopes are vague enough to apply to anyone" is false. This is basic logic, you should've covered this in undergrad.
Nope, you're just a liar. Only after I told you how to properly do a double blind experiment did you say that's what you did.
Fuck off liar.
And go read the paper. The people couldn't tell a real astrology report from a random computer generated one. If astrology reports were so accurate the people could pick out out from an obviously fake one, but they could not.
Exactly why I didn't bring it up.
Still haven't addressed the methodology of the "real" astrologers in that study, and again, still not relevant.
Read this once again, slowly:
I did not claim astrology was accurate.
My claim was that it was not -always- vague.
A report does not have to be accurate to be specific.
You are arguing against a claim I did not make instead of the one I did make.
Read the paper.
And just because you read something as specific does not make it specific. I already sent you information about the Barnum effect, which you repeatedly ignored.
You know nothing of science, how dare you make any claims that I do not.
There it is again, diverting from my actual position to argue again something else.
Since obviously you flunked middle school science:
Precision =/= accuracy. You continue to argue against the accuracy of astrology, which was not a part of my position.