{"id":43,"date":"2022-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T17:20:47","slug":"another-astrological-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/another-astrological-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Astrological Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>another good test would be double-blind rectification \u2013 giving dates but not birth hours of known <a href=\"https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.astro.com\/astro-databank\/Help:RR\">AA charts<\/a> and seeing how well astrologers do at getting the right answer when they rectify the chart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i suspect they will do very poorly \u2013 podcast people here doing research are very annoyed to hear of people polluting datasets with rectified charts, accusing the people who add them of Lying, which implies that they have a low opinion of rectification as it is practiced<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>whether this means astrologers are generally bad at rectification or whether rectification doesn\u2019t work or whether astrology doesn\u2019t work are three separate hypotheses, but this one seems more testable than most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>another good test would be double-blind rectification \u2013 giving dates but not birth hours of known AA charts and seeing how well astrologers do at getting the right answer when they rectify the chart i suspect they will do very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/another-astrological-test\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,13,3],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astrology","tag-science","tag-tumblr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}