Re: Virgos play basketball more than Taureans

"Apollia" <xerxes112@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 19, 1:53 am, "Ray Murphy" <ray...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> If people who are born under the sign of Taurus and Virgo have
>> equal access to the s****t of Basketball, then those with Sun in
>> Virgo elect  to play that s****t at a much higher rate than the Sun
>> in Taurus people.
>>
>> See the attached progressive-graph in date order for the 502 people
>> listed in Astrodatabank Version 3 who were born in either of those
>> signs. There are 285 Virgo and 217 Taurus people born during a 66
>> year period from 1913 to 1979.
>>
>> The observation is statistically significant at about the 0.03
>> level when a comparison is made between those 2 signs in isolation.
>>
>> Noon times have been used for all births.
>>
[Graph has been posted in the Files section of the Google Group
"Tropical astrology Research"]
http://tropical-astrology-research.googlegroups.com/web/Basketballers.gif?gda=U2MV2kUAAAAR4o_U4Mb1ar5u1N08e_lzoV3BSWdITZ_Q3wqNGgyUGOG2sVwGLF-i21hNBTL4y6OkNTLimnrPyTN8pl8xhyRsrnbirdOKW0UubKy7Gu2GBQ&gsc=1rI-yAsAAABS4Ee1kLUl647TiZkjb1-K

>> Ray
>
> Wow, what a neat-looking graph.  Thanks for posting that.
>
> I'm not sure I'm understanding it correctly (and I definitely don't
> understand the terminology about "0.03 level") but that really looks
> weird and perhaps even significant.

RM: The graph is depicting the number of Virgo's and Taureans who went
into astrology and got listed at Astrodatabank, but it was drawn by
using their birthdates, i.e. every time one of those people was born
the graph was updated to reflect it - either as an additional Virgo 
born
or Taurean born.

This new concept of graphing is a lot better than simply looking at
two scores and saying "That's nice, more Virgos - but it could be
chance at play" - which it could be of course, but it's good to be
looking at two scores like that and see HOW one score got higher.

The "0.03 level" was a reference to statistical significance. Anything
lower than 0.05 makes it worthwhile to look at the observation more
closely and try to repeat it.

> This reminds me, I really ought to return to studying the statistics
> textbook I have (and maybe some other math textbooks).  Math is
> still a weak point of mine... :-/

RM: I only know enough about stats to be dangerous .

> I wonder why Virgos would be more interested in playing basketball
> than Taurus.  I'm curious to know if the same holds true of Virgos
> and Tauruses in any other s****t.

RM: I think it's because more of them are taller than Taurus, plus an
increased percentage of them with.the interest in participating in one
of the most physically demanding of all s****ts. I suppose if they had
armchairs around the perimeter of the basketball court more Taureans
would get involved :-))

> One thing that comes to mind is Virgo is a mutable sign and Taurus
> is a fixed sign, and mutability might suggest someone who might be
> more active and likes to move around a lot more than someone with a
> fixed-sign emphasis.

RM: Well even without the astrological theory, we can see waht a good
percentage of Taurus peopel are like. Ok, guys not ALL Taureans - just
a few more than average - ok?

> Plus, Virgo is ruled by Mercury (a planet associated with being busy
> and active), and Taurus is ruled by Venus (a planet associated with
> relaxing and taking it easy).

RM: I agree.

[corrected text below]
Might be interesting to look at other mutable signs and other fixed
signs.  It might also be interesting to compare Gemini (Mercury-ruled)
and Libra (Venus-ruled).

RM: I'll be looking at a whole array of things like this - and it's a 
new
approach to research because it allows more to be done with less data.

> By the way, here's a small but odd coincidence which I can't prove
> really happened, but I'll mention it anyhow.
>
> Yesterday I was feeling so energetic I was thinking I'd just love to
> go out and play a game of - specifically - basketball.  (Or else go
> swimming.  I did neither, by the way).

RM: If you had said that you suddenly wanted to weed the garden
after not being in the back yard for 12 months, I'd suggest that you 
look
for something like tran Mercury opp MC, but I can't suggest anything
just yet for a s****ting activity. We don't have o actually DO anything
when we get fitting transits - the idea is sufficient fr it to have 
'worked'.
[I'm not suggesting that you didn't know that already].

> Some weird things about this are: I'm not a s****ts-playing type of
> person.  I never play basketball, never watch basketball or any
> other  s****t (watching s****ts bores me to death, even though I have
>enjoyed playing them in the past - the last time was in high school,
> though), and I rarely even think about basketball at all.

> Then, here, on the only forum I've been reading very consistently
> lately, which usually isn't a very busy place, someone starts a
> thread where basketball is a prominent theme. :-)
>
> Could be just a random coincidence, of course.  But, I don't know,
> could there be something astrological about this?  Might there be an
> asteroid called Basketball transiting somplace significant in both
> our charts or something?  :-)

RM: I'm quite sure the timing was meant to be like this. I've been 
more
or less waiting at my keyboard for you to reply before anyone else.
It has been my intention to catch up with you for a couple of years to
discuss the data that you put on your website for those 400 people
who described themselves as liking to argue.  Did you know that
your data and my observation of the MER con URA prominence in
it, caused a huge disturbance in the world of astrology research?

[....]

> Apollia

Ray