Astrology Vs Astronomy
- For centuries, astrology (looking for signs based on the movement of the celestial bodies) was considered basically the same thing as astronomy (the scientific study of those objects).
- But its popularity relies on factors that numbers can't compute, and the appeal of looking to the stars for answers has not waned.
- Even if astrology's answers aren't based on scientific study, the reason people keep turning to the sky does come down to the psychological phenomenon he calls the human tendency for "self-selection," the search for interpretations that match what we already hope to be true.
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