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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by sapiens
One of the criticisms of astrology is that it's predictions/readings are sufficiently vague that they could apply to everyone, regardless of sign. If this is the case, the method you describe above might not adequately test astrology.
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IMO it has the same kind of broadness as a fortune cookie reading.
It also has plenty of elements of "cold reading"
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One of the most crucial elements of a convincing cold reading is a credulous subject eager to make connections or reinterpret vague statements in any way that will help the reader appear to have made specific predictions or intuitions. While the reader will do most of the talking, it is the subject who provides the meaning.
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