how did they figure out what ppl really like base on their birthdays.
i believe in horoscope.
2006-08-07 16:35:06 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
if you believe in a horoscope then when you get sick do you visit a witch doctor to cure you ?
2006-08-07 16:37:30 · answer #1 · answered by Biker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Horoscopes are true because they are worded to be true of most people. This study has been repeated very many times: a professor or lecturer gives his students a piece of paper with a horoscope on it. He tells them that it's personalized for them. The students read it, and he asks them how many of them think it's an accurate description of who they are. Most of the class raises their hands. Then, he reveals that they were all given the exact same handout. Furthermore, the predictions were based on the birthday of some serial killer or other unsavory character.
This is called the Forer effect. The horoscopes are true for you because they're true for most humans. We're not as different from each other as we think.
2006-08-07 16:43:01 · answer #2 · answered by Muralasa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is weird how they seem to be accurate in the description of the person under a particular sign. I don't always buy into the daily horoscope as they are at best vague and open to extensive interpretation.
2006-08-07 16:47:12 · answer #3 · answered by Elwood 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Horoscope is a time/personality matrix. If you are in the matrix you behave subconsiously the matrix dictate for you. You rise above it you become the perfect being you were design to be. This time/personality matrix is designed by the supernatural powers after Man fell the day they ate the "apple" or whatever.
2006-08-07 16:43:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's a famous demonstration. my college professor passed out to everyone our personalized horoscope, based on info we'd given him the previous week. our names weren't on them, the professor said he coded them by our seat number.
we talked about how cool they were, they were so much like us. then he told us, after picking up the horoscope printout of the student in the front of my row," oh, i messed up." he looked at his class list and said, everyone needs to pass their horoscope to the person behind them - last person, bring yours to the front. And then we saw that we all had the same horoscope...
the stars are not even in the same position each month today as they were when the horoscope was created.
2006-08-07 16:41:59 · answer #5 · answered by t jefferson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think maybe the time of year that you are born in does effect your personality. Maybe it's all a hoax. Maybe it's just another way to define people. When seeking an answer, you must view all possibilities. I have listed some. Enjoy riddling it out!
2006-08-07 16:43:32 · answer #6 · answered by for_always_groban 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, my personality does not match the horoscope at all. I am the most unvirgoian virgo you would ever met.
2006-08-07 16:38:37 · answer #7 · answered by whozethere 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with p-rent.. i am capricorn. i read my horoscope and was like holy ****, this discribes me perfectly! but then i read some others and they did to.. its a cool idea to believe your birth with the planet alignments determines things about ya, but its all bs..they couldnt possibly affect each individual person based on the day and month, even if planets did affect us..
2006-08-07 16:41:01 · answer #8 · answered by hey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, They don't figure out anything . they are written to appease those who read them .Wouldn't you rather be considered an individual .. That's CLONE stuff .. How can so many people believe that they are not created as an individual who is unique in their own special way ?
2006-08-07 16:41:04 · answer #9 · answered by cesare214 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't. Try reading the other horoscopes. They use vauge language so that you can relate whatever they write to yourself.
2006-08-07 16:37:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋