Astrology is a pervasive belief that has been linked to various factors, including psychology, personality traits, and societal influences. A 2009 Harris poll found that 26% of Americans believe in astrology, more than 23% of witches and 23% of UFOs. Astrology is defined as the belief that astronomical phenomena, such as the stars overhead when you were born or Mercury’s retrograde position, have the power to influence your life.
Confirmation bias, a psychological factor, contributes to the belief in astrology. It is a form of cognitive bias that allows astrologists to manipulate individuals and represent them as “claroyant”. Intelligent people with degrees do not believe in horoscopes, as believing in them immediately excludes them from being intelligent. The idea that your individual life reflects deep cosmic order is flattering and helps hold off the thought of meaninglessness.
Astrology is currently enjoying broad cultural acceptance that hasn’t been seen since the 19th-century. With little to no scientific evidence backing these beliefs, why do so many people still look at their horoscopes? Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons. Millions of Americans believe in conspiracy theories, including those who might be expected to know better.
Psychics, fortunetellers, palm readers, and astrologers all depend on the power of confirmation bias by telling their clients (some would call them “magical thinking”) about their lives. Overall, astrology serves as a coping mechanism for complex life situations and can be a powerful tool for those seeking guidance and guidance.
📹 The Common Character Trait of Geniuses | James Gleick | Big Think
James Gleick, who wrote a biography of Isaac Newton, describes the reclusive scientist as “antisocial, unpleasant and bitter.
Why did human beings invent astrology?
Astrology was initially designed to inform individuals about their life course based on the positions of planets and zodiacal signs at birth or conception. Genethlialogy, or casting nativities, developed the fundamental techniques of astrology. Subsequences of astrology include general, catarchic, and interrogatory. General astrology studies the relationship between significant celestial moments and social groups, nations, or humanity.
Catarchic astrology determines if a chosen moment is conducive to success of a course of action. This approach conflicts with genethlialogy interpretation, but allows individuals or corporations to act at astrologically favorable times to avoid failures predicted from their nativity.
Is astrology scientifically correct?
Astrology is considered pseudoscience due to its lack of scientific validity and effectiveness in controlled studies. There is no proposed mechanism for how stars and planets affect people and events on Earth, which contradicts well-understood aspects of biology and physics. Modern scientific inquiry focuses on the correlation between astrological traditions and seasonal birth in humans. Most professional astrologers rely on astrology-based personality tests and make predictions about the remunerator’s future.
Those who continue to believe in astrology are characterized as doing so despite the lack of verified scientific basis and strong evidence to the contrary. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson emphasized the importance of understanding how nature shapes the world around us, as without this knowledge, individuals can easily become victims of those seeking to take advantage of them.
Is there any truth behind astrology?
The study by Lu et al. found that people’s birth signs have no influence on their personality, and their belief in astrology does not make any difference. This contradicts the idea that belief in astrology might influence someone’s actual personality, such as their level of extraversion. Astrological stereotypes can have negative consequences, as they can have undesirable social effects. In China, the sign Virgo has negative connotations of being disagreeable, which are not found in Western countries.
This stereotyping has real-world consequences, as Chinese people are reluctant to date someone born under this sign and managers admit to discriminating against them in hiring decisions. A large database of 32, 878 employees showed that no astrological sign was related to ratings of actual job performance. The study highlights the need for more research on the impact of astrological stereotypes on personality and job performance.
What is the correlation between low IQ and astrology?
A study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden found a negative correlation between intelligence and belief in astrology. Participants with higher intelligence scores had lower belief in astrology, suggesting that those with higher cognitive abilities are less likely to subscribe to astrological beliefs. The study involved 264 participants who completed an online survey assessing their belief in astrology, intelligence, and personality traits, including narcissism and the Big Five personality traits. The findings highlight two main findings:
- Intelligence is associated with lower belief in astrology, suggesting that those with higher cognitive abilities are less likely to subscribe to astrological beliefs.\n2
Is astrology linked to narcissism?
A study published in Personality and Individual Differences found that narcissism is the strongest predictor of belief in astrology, and intelligence is negatively associated with this belief. Although there is no scientific evidence to support astrology, it has been increasing in popularity. Previous research suggests a relationship between encountering stressors and belief in astrology, and belief in other pseudosciences and conspiracies.
The study involved 264 participants who responded to various questions assessing belief in astrology, completed questionnaires measuring Big Five personality and grandiose narcissism, and completed four three-dimensional rotational items to assess intelligence. The findings suggest that personality traits, intelligence, and belief in astrology may be linked.
Why do some people most likely believe in horoscopes?
People often find personal meaning in generic future predictions or personality assessments, known as the “Barnum effect”. This effect is heightened when predictions have personalized labels or are overly positive. For instance, a fortune cookie, a popular Chinese takeaway, may offer insights into an individual’s personality or future forecast. However, the power of a mass-produced cookie wafer lies in its vagueness, as the predictions may be entertaining but meaningless.
Understanding typical cookie wisdom may help explain why people attribute meaning to predictions that may not be present. For example, a pleasant surprise, better luck, and understanding how to enjoy solitude can all contribute to this phenomenon.
What does the Bible say about astrology?
In Matthew 28:18, Jesus asserts that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him. This contradicts biblical wisdom, as chasing after false gods is a sin. There is no biblical evidence that God has given authority to stars or astrologists. Pursuing predictions about our destiny or personality is biblically sinful, as it takes power from God and gives it to something other than God. A horoscope cannot change what God has already ordained before we were even created.
What did Isaac Newton say about astrology?
Newton’s astrological contributions were largely overlooked in both manuscript and print forms. In 1977, Derek Whiteside, in his examination of approximately 50 million words from Newton’s mathematical manuscripts, could not discern any references to horoscopes.
Is there a negative relationship between intelligence and belief in astrology?
The study found that higher intelligence levels led to lower belief in astrology, and agreeable individuals reported higher belief in astrology. Additionally, agreeable people tend to report believing in astrology more. The research was published in ScienceDirect and is protected by copyright and open access licensing terms. The study also highlights the importance of understanding and embracing astrology’s beliefs and practices.
Did Einstein believe astrology?
Einstein’s sole known commentary on astrology is a 1943 epistle to Eugene Simon, wherein he concurs with Simon regarding the pseudoscientific nature of astrology, emphasizing its resilience and longevity over centuries.
📹 The Modern Astrology Obsession, Explained
The science behind astrology is, arguably, a little… iffy. So why are people still so compelled to compare themselves to their rising …
I am not a genius, however I tend to wander what’s inside of my mind and sing a lullaby that literally resonate differently with my thoughts, for instance I was thinking of a theory but sang “Cake by the ocean” whilst thinking it, it felt like my mind has its own personality, can’t really describe it, fun place though!
OH! “…they had the ability to concentrate that is difficult for mortals like me to grasp.” That is precisely the subjective experience — from the other side of the immaterial subject/object duality — of what I call the experience of “I have to hide so much of my thoughts and perceptions and feelings from ‘mere mortals’ because it scares them. When, for instance, I’m in therapy, and they say — effectively — trust me, this is a safe space… and then I open up and show them my profound aloneness and how I just wish I had “someone to play with me” and these trained therapists, with multiple doctorates and other diplomas on their wall, break down crying. And… well, I leave; at the core, I am moral, and why would I want to make someone cry? But it feels like such a profound betrayal, again: you said I could trust you; you said I could open up. Why are you running? You are perfectly describing the subjective reality of being “scary smart.” We are still *PEOPLE*, and are baffled and confused why so many other seem to be *afraid of the ideas in our head*.
I think comparing Feynman to the other scientists with whom he shared the Nobel Prize, Julian Schwinger and Sin-itiro Tomonaga, helps us to connect the need for abstraction and the tendency toward introversion, the key traits that Gleick cites. The need for long periods alone helps one to enter into that abstraction and go where it takes you, and the more one “lives” in the abstraction, the further it takes you from people who just don’t understand what you are thinking. It’s worth noting that Schwinger and Tomonaga were more classic introverts that Feynman, but all were deep thinkers who developed their theories in quantum electrodynamics independently. Tomonaga’s isolation was the most literal and total of them all: he developed his theories in a bombed-out shelter in late- and post-war Tokyo, far away from major academic centers that might have provided stimulation and encouragement. Some biographers have marveled at what he was able to achieve in near isolation. But in fact, that is just what a real introvert needs.
Sometimes I dig in deep thinking and and loniless, and abstraction. It is very difficult. I cant do it all day. I need to rest. But I am creating a particular kind of episthemology. Its ridiculous, I know. But, I dig through ideas like existence, pesception, consciense, semantic, logical struscture of perception, automatic identification and categorization through the simple act of existing, emerging memories by spontaneous, also through decision, so… when I dig like that, I do looking to a wall, or in dark room, or walking by the kitchen, and I spent hours writing. Hours. And days because the problem is infinite. And I start to dialogue with philosofers and scientists, and I keep myself trying to describe time as a elemental think of existence, more than space in philosofical therms, and I try to understand if qualia is methaphysical and not physical, yet not influent in the mecanicism of the physical universe. And I am doing it through all my life, and only now I am being able to sistematize it. I know I am crazy. But, somehow, I see myself like a genious sometimes. I get some philosofical thinkings or I supose some possibilities that I often dicover that other great persons thought. So maybe I am not dumb. And also, I dont care for money, or cars, houses, travels, lots of womans, clothes. I think all of these are kind silly, ridoculous. So… I think I really have this movement of deep solitary thinking. I just dont know if I am intelligent enough to produce something good until my death and leave it to humanity, or to my family, city, country, whathever.
I’m the greatest intellectual that has ever lived! No one on planet earth has the level of lucidity that I have! Not even god himself can be as clear headed as me! To see the universe so clearly is so beautiful! If only others could see indescribable beauty a god like me sees! I might be the most intelligent man on earth, but even this amount of intelligence isn’t enough to describe it to less lucid beings! I watch rick and morty played backwards everyday and, the philosophical insight I get from the show is absolutely phenomenal! In fact, even trump himself couldn’t describe it more poetically than a being like I can!
well the true definition of an exceptional individual is that he/she cannot be labeled or categorized. so… yea, being “alone” is part of the game, cause u cannot share “that intuition” with anyone else. pioneers are often (or always) alone. and even for those who strictly follow them, they dont truly understand it: they are just charmed by the strong ego that genuis has. dante put this very concept into words in a genius way ^_^ describing ulysses leading his fellows towards “the unexplored”.
Never heard of Richard Feynman (1918-1988) newscience com – He was a Nobel-prize winning US theoretical physicist. Famed for his brilliant mind and unpredictable personality, his main work was in quantum physics and particle physics. He also pioneered ideas in quantum computing and nanotechnology. Feynman first made a scientific name for himself as a member of the Manhattan project to build the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 at the end of the second world war.
I get the focus thing. My problem is I focus really intensely on things but not important things. I’ll be like “why is the sun orange” and go down a huge rabbit hole about energy fields in atoms and photons and photonics. Coming out 10-12 hours later having not eaten or drank anything or left my desk. So only if I could harness that in things I need to research I would be Hermaeus Mora in no time.
My friend. U could not be more correct. This is so real. This is really what it is like. I used to try to draw the brain and like thoughts that might have been occurring and the thread-like nature they carry. This thread.. it travels further, more swiftly, and more creatively, than communication can really share. Eventually we will probably be able to really highlight this. But yea. For me.. in a creative flow state.. linking theories or how to solve things together, the thought certainly runs internally way clearer. And it only really happens when I’m alone. It becomes a wonderful flurry of things
Newton was an introvert, Feynman was an extrovert, pretty damn simple. Common traits of INTJ personality, can think of big and small picture, can think in multiple planes, from the beginning to end, end to beginning and middle to either end.. Can really multitask when that word multitask is used correctly. Is very different than all the other personalities. Is more stubborn, unpredictable and intolerant of fools than others.
On December 20, 1997, Gleick was attempting to land his Rutan Long-EZ experimental plane at Greenwood Lake Airport in West Milford, New Jersey when a build-up of ice in the engine’s carburetor caused the aircraft engine to lose power and the plane landed short of the runway into rising terrain. The impact killed Gleick’s eight-year-old son and left Gleick seriously injured.
I was tested by a legitimate physiatrist at 14 who told my mother I had a genius IQ. I came from a dysfunctional average IQ family, father died at 38 left 4 young children and a wife who lost it and stayed that way. I left home and was on my own at 16 and never looked back. So what did I do with my genius IQ? Academically not much, but it did help me make a lot of good decisions throughout my life, and was able to retire very early. Had I come from the right family who wasn’t dirt poor to begin with, and got a good education who knows how far I could have gone in life? I did well enough to put the next 2 generations through college hopefully they will take advantage of it. I wonder now how many there are like me with a higher IQ that never gets used. TheReaper!
Not to go and call myself a genius (although tbh as a kid I pretty much was – the gap has closed since) or anything but I was just thinking the other day I wish it were easier and more normal to arrange text messages in space and connect them with arrows and such. The reason being that I sometimes go off on multiple tangents at once, and I seem to just kind of process everything in parallel? But you can’t easily have three parallel conversations with the same person. And while the sensible thing would be to stick them in sequence, there’s the slight issue that each one of those conversations will have its own tangents and branches. I don’t think particularly quickly but I feel like this probably counts as intense cognitive processing
Reading the title and looking at the duration of the clip… I thought it was something like: “The Common Character Trait of Geniuses – is that they would NEVER click on a article like that!” Besides that… I actually came for James Gleick because, way back, after studying physics and being a trader on Wall Street, involved in fractal market analysis and chaos theory, his book “Chaos – Making A New Science” was one of my favorite books… but that was in a different life, in a different century… well, the interest bled into our current century… but getting old… who the F*** is counting! 🙂
We’ are specks of nothing on a tiny blue marble, hurdling through a massively enormous void that consists of 95% of something of which we know nothing about, headed to an unknown location that we’ll most likely never reach, all the while we continue to destroy one another with our pride and arrogance, simultaneously killing the one thing that has provided us all with a place to call home. We’re malicious and violent to our brothers and sisters because of a slight variation in pigmentation and because they have slightly different views on topics that ultimately have no conclusive answers. If the earth and all humans, suddenly vanished, would the universe even know or care? Would anything change in the slightest?what exactly are we geniuses of?