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Been there (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 38 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

In a college classroom with only women, we did a student survey that asked how many believe in astrology. It was 50%.

I'm curious how that boils down in a coed institution, or a research 1 school or something.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    Of all the non-scientific things to believe in, astrology is one of the weirdest. Especially if you’re talking about ancient astrology, come on now… the sky has changed significantly in eg 2000 years, how could you make any conclusions based on that? Or the figures drawn from groups of stars, constellations, that are not even remotely close to each other if you look from another viewpoint?
    But I guess it’s even worse… I guess most people talk about their magazine horoscopes, that aren’t even written by actual astrologers :(

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    As has been pointed out many times the configuration of the solar system today is completely different to the configuration of the solar system on this date precisely 365 days ago, because the orbit of the Earth has very little to do with all the other planets. So even if the locations of random astronomical objects, but not others because they don't count obviously, have an impact on my personality why are all libras the same, how does that work?

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