Monday, July 10, 2006

Best Horoscope Award

Goes to the West Australian newspaper of July 8, 2006.

Scorpio: Whatever decisions or commitments you make over the weekend have a 50-50 chance of working to your advantage.


EoR isn't willing to take any bets that that particular prediction came true for 100% of Scorpios, since he'd be sure to lose. Astrology. Amazing.

3 comments:

  1. Actually, I'm not sure you're correct. You're assuming a 50/50 split in good/bad decisions taken. People may actually do better than that (or worse - your call) in real life.

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  2. EoR interprets it as: decisions will work to your advantage, or they will not work to your advantage. Perhaps the astrology is not correct on the exact 50-50 split (but most people will only be undertaking a small number of trials of such a test in the space of one weekend), but the predicted outcome is sure to come true, since the total probability of both outcomes is 1.

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  3. And today's Aries in The West Australian: "The strike rate for success will be much the same whether you analyse situations or take the first option."

    I didn't used to have much faith in horoscopes, but now I'm convinced they are entirely true.

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