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Old 02-06-2013, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Toehammer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
The only logical argument for astrological personalities I could ever think of is that certain people who are born during a season, for example winter, might have lower melatonin or Vitamin D intake in (perhaps a critical?) first stage of their life, compared to someone born during spring/summer. I have no idea about infant vitamin research, so this idea may or may not be true. But at least it has SOME logic built into it.
Well there is also the school system. For example some boys will be up to 11 months older, which means in general they will be stronger/more developed at all points and thus more prone to leadership/success. Your hormones actually reflect your actions, so if you act like a leader you'll get more testosterone. I remember a study where they had couples gaze dreamily into each others eyes for 15 minutes or something; apparently this lead to quite a few dates [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] This is also why we have so many masculine women in the US; when women are put in leadership/competitive positions the testosterone starts flowing as the body adapts.

Also my understanding of central limit theorem was that the sum of a series of N iid random variables had the same variance as any individual variance. I did a test of this though and with the lisp pseudorandom number generator the deviation goes as roughly sqrt(n). So I guess I need to review my old college statistics somewhere.
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