Carlos Orsi

And a Taurus is a dependable, trustworthy friend and things like that.

But the point is, if you read this personality statements about the signs, first, there are lots of characteristics.

So you can always pick and choose.

So you can, okay, so this guy is a Capricorn, but hey, but he's wasted all his money.

Yeah, but he's a very cold and non-emotional person.

So, okay, you ignore the prediction that he would be good with money and you fix on the prediction that he's going to be an unemotional person.

So you can sort of pick and choose.

It has been debunked several times, but there is a curious wrinkle in that.

There was a study made in the 1970s that asked the people to answer questions about their personalities.

And the first time the study was, and compared the results with what the stereotypical astrological characteristics from their birth dates.

And the first time this experiment was made, the researchers were astounded because it sort of confirmed the astrological tenets.

But then they separated the answers from people who were astrology students from the general public.

What they conclude was that the people who are really into astrology tended to answer the personality questions in a way to confirm what they thought their personalities should be because of their signs.

And of course, the people who didn't know about astrology just gave the answer that they thought was the most cogent to the question.

Yes, I think at best, astrology is a structure in which people can plug in their intuitions, their feelings, and build a sort of narrative that unites all of that.

But I think it can be perhaps healthy or helpful for some people, but the problem is the structure is fictional.

So if you start taking it seriously, it will lead you to bad consequences because you will be making decisions and interpreting the events of your life based on things that really aren't there.

There are some scientists in social sciences that made content analysis of what these horoscopes say.

And it's sort of depressing because they conclude that they just reinforce stereotypes and prejudices.

There is one analysis that said, okay, you can predict the social class of the readership of a magazine just by reading the horoscope page of that magazine.