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I love you, man

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
*promote the baddest-ass mofo on tv. Kick the shit out of him Ari!

*promote the baddest-ass mofo on tv. Kick the shit out of him Ari!

I love Ari, one of the best characters to ever grace the tube. The show can go jump though. I mean, I have to watch so much junk to see the Ari Gold goodness!

Thought you might enjoy a little more Ari Gold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGTJSorTQvw

Why is Ari Fleischer on my teevee?

I love Ari, so very much.

Ah Ari. I love to hate you.

Here is the actual survey data she's looking at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-ARIS-faith-survey_N.htm

She actually misread the data. When she said she was looking at the "change in percentage of folks who claim to be christians". She was actually looking at the "change in the percentage of non-catholic christians".

So while you see Texas had the highest decrease in non-catholic christians, it also had the highest increase in catholics.

[edit]: You can find the real full report here: http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/

^ An experiment like that would indeed work well actually. As long as:

* The interviews never touched on things you could glean their date of birth from (time of year, not how old they are)
* Neither you nor I would know the star signs of anyone in the room until after you'd made your choices.
* You are completely free to ask them any questions in regards to their personalities such that you could glean their star sign from that information.

Statistically, it's probably not 1 in 12 will be Aries, it'll be some different number based on the area you're doing this test in (higher birthrates in different times of the year in different places).

And then we'd see how many you get right. Now, it's not just a 'I chose these 5, and 4 of them were Aries, look how good that is', it's also how many others did you not pick that were Aries.

It would be fascinating, and actually, I'm sure it's been done many times in the past.

Actually This test tested many well known astrologers.

This one describes past tests and another one where the astrologers were given all the birth information of the people and asked to glean their personalities from that information.

Again an abject failure. (And also demonstrates no agreement between the 50 astrologers, which you would imagine there SHOULD be if it were any sort of 'science')

It would be a great experiment to do, I'm always fascinated to see the outcomes of such things

experiment design needed in this thread!

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
>> ^MINK:
but... i can tell a fellow aries from about 3 minutes of conversation. you have no idea how many times i have said "aries, right? when's your birthday?" and they are like "april". this normally happens after a heated aries-style argument, and never happens with virgo or one of those pussy signs.
shit i should claim my 1000000 dollars now. what's the address?


And you conveniently forget all those times when it didn't work out that way.

That's what happens, that's the human mind for you.

The number of nurses who will tell you that the emergency room goes crazy because of the full moon is huge.

The studies? They show there is NO correlation at all. It's all people's minds and what they expect to happen vs what does happen. They remember more what they believed to be the outcome and tend to forget anything that doesn't bolster their position.

It's all absolute bunk

>> ^MINK:
but... i can tell a fellow aries from about 3 minutes of conversation.
>> ^spoco2:
And you conveniently forget all those times when it didn't work out that way.


Well obviously I knew you would say that, but i don't think i forgot 11 times for every one time i remembered.

So let's design an experiment: put me in a room, i interview 100 people... 10 are aries. how many people would i have to guess right for you to be satisfied that there is some kind of truth to my claim to be able to recognise Aries? (sorry, maybe there's a better design you can suggest, i am not really an expert in statistics and probability, let alone counting in base 12)

I would love to do this experiment, whatever the result. It would be more valid than the "debunking" in this video.

>> ^MINK:
but... i can tell a fellow aries from about 3 minutes of conversation. you have no idea how many times i have said "aries, right? when's your birthday?" and they are like "april". this normally happens after a heated aries-style argument, and never happens with virgo or one of those pussy signs.
shit i should claim my 1000000 dollars now. what's the address?


And you conveniently forget all those times when it didn't work out that way.

That's what happens, that's the human mind for you.

The number of nurses who will tell you that the emergency room goes crazy because of the full moon is huge.

The studies? They show there is NO correlation at all. It's all people's minds and what they expect to happen vs what does happen. They remember more what they believed to be the outcome and tend to forget anything that doesn't bolster their position.

It's all absolute bunk

but... i can tell a fellow aries from about 3 minutes of conversation. you have no idea how many times i have said "aries, right? when's your birthday?" and they are like "april". this normally happens after a heated aries-style argument, and never happens with virgo or one of those pussy signs.

shit i should claim my 1000000 dollars now. what's the address?

lol.. ditto

(I'm an Aries as well)