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Originally Posted by Tesarra
I think it might be interesting to do a large scale comparison of a sub-population that is strongly agrarian and tied to seasonal variations in food supply vs. a highly urbanized group where food and other resources are available in steady supply year round. I would expect that if any patterns exist in the data, they would be stronger in the group where being born in a "lean" season has more impact to nutrition.Regards, Tes
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Thank you Tesarra, your suggestion raises the problem I face as a private researcher, that of getting access to data. If a registry of births deaths and marriages gave me old date records for say 100,000 anonymous people, I would subject this data to the same tests described above. Many government agencies would have databases with suitable records, for example date of birth and date of accident for road deaths, etc. To my knowledge such testing has never been done before. It is very simple, but the ill-repute of astrology seems to pose barriers to doing it, and I have no idea how to obtain such data. Any suggestions?? Regarding your specific proposal, artifacts of the type you describe are common, given that terrestrial environmental cycles swamp planetary influences which are tiny if they exist at all. However, planetary transit data is not seasonal so I don't think the specific example you give would be a problem. My Planets and Earthquakes thread linked above contains a simple howler where I mistook an obvious artifact for a significant result. Robert