The test is the “ p “ figure, a number that can be calculated based on the size of the sample and variation of the results compared to the expected distribution.
It is a well understood statistical fact that for a piece of research to be considered statistically significant, it needs to have a resulting “ p “ figure of less than 0.01. Basically the more noughts and decimal places the better.
Capricorn Research has been looking into astrology for over 35 years. Over this time it was realised that the reason so many research projects have come up short was to do with having sample sizes that were too small to produce compelling evidence.
As a result, a decision was taken to do research on a grand scale, using every chart published on the astrodatabank website between the spring of 2010 and 2013.
This research has yielded a vast amount of astrological data that I have been slowly writing up on my website.
This article is simply to list the various groups which have produced astrological results by planets in signs which beat the “ p “ challenge, i.e they score less than 0.01.
By way of explanation a “ p “ figure with an E – shows the number of noughts in the result. Therefore 4.00 E – 30 means 0.000000000000000000000000000004.
The lists show the sample size with the planet concerned and the sign that scores highest together with the p figure for the planet’s distribution in that sample.
The list in order is as follows.
1. 18967 High Achievers Venus Aquarius 4.00 E – 63
2. 20641 Public Figures Mars Leo 9.69 E – 60
3. 20641 Public Figures Venus Aquarius 1.79 E – 55
4. 18967 High Achievers Mars Leo 2.46 E – 50
5. 4950 Thinkers Venus Aquarius 1.78 E – 21
6. 18967 High Achievers Mercury Pisces 1.85 E – 21
7. 20641 Public Figures Mercury Aquarius 3.71 E – 18
8. 2177 Same Sex Rel. Mars Virgo 2.02 E – 15
9. 18967 High Achievers Sun Pisces 2.82 E – 15
10. 20641 Public Figures Sun Pisces 3.63 E – 14
11. 2643 Non Achievers Mars Virgo 3.46 E – 14
12. 2643 Non Achievers Venus Virgo 5.32 E – 13
13. 1787 Gay Men Mars Virgo 9.44 E – 12
14. 3636 Creative Types Venus Aquarius 9.62 E – 12
15. 2177 Same Sex Rel Venus Virgo 1.04 E – 11
16. 3350 Action Types Venus Aquarius 5.73 E – 11
17. 4950 Thinkers Mars Leo 9.31 E – 11
18. 1606 Disadvantaged Mars Libra 1.80 E – 10
19. 2680 Sport Venus Aquarius 8.60 E – 10
20. 1518 Victims Mars Libra 1.40 E – 09
21. 3636 Creative Types Mercury Capricorn 2.96 E – 09
22. 1787 Gay Men Venus Virgo 1.20 E – 08
23. 3636 Creative Types Sun Pisces 1.30 E – 08
24. 2048 Writers Venus Taurus 3.10 E – 08
25. 1473 Politicians Mars Leo 1.33 E – 07
26. 1606 Disadvantaged Venus Virgo 1.73 E – 07
27. 3636 Creative Types Mars Virgo 2.00 E – 07
28. 2566 Actors Mars Virgo 5.98 E – 07
29. 1518 Victims Venus Virgo 2.42 E -06
30. 4950 Thinkers Mercury Pisces 2.88 E – 06
31. 1120 Singers Mars Virgo 3.76 E – 06
32. 393 Painters Venus Aries 9.85 E – 06
33. 4950 Thinkers Sun Pisces 1.60 E – 05
34. 737 Scientists Sun Gemini / Cap 1.61 E – 05
35. 783 Artists Sun Pisces 2.91 E – 05
36. 3350 Action Types Mars Cancer 4.16 E – 05
37. 2566 Actors Venus Virgo 7.12 E – 05
38. 1473 Politicians Venus Cancer 8.83 E – 05
39. 166 Prostitutes Rising Pisces 7.58 E – 05
40. 106 Motor Racing Sun Aries 1.86 E – 04
41. 680 Pop Singers Venus Aquarius 2.10 E – 04
42. 783 Artists Venus Aquarius 0.00025
43. 2680 Sport Mars Leo 0.00029
44. 242 Twins Mars Virgo 0.00034
45. 393 Painters Sun Pisces 0.00036
46. 288 Sex Symbols Mars Leo 0.00045
47. 543 Film Directors Venus Aquarius 0.00048
48. 737 Scientists Venus Taurus 0.00068
49. 166 Prostitutes Venus Virgo 0.00078
50. 190 Drug Takers Mars Libra 0.00094
51. 873 Troubled Mars Virgo 0.00103
52. 680 Pop Singers Mars Virgo 0.00137
53. 917 Famous Families Mars Leo 0.00144
54. 873 Troubled Venus Aquarius 0.00165
55. 783 Artists Mercury Aquarius 0.00178
56. 581 Novelists Venus Taurus 0.00186
57. 562 Religion Mars Virgo 0.00195
58. 2643 Non Achievers Mercury Capricorn 0.00196
59. 543 Film Directors Mars Gemini 0.002
60. 239 Boxers Mars Taurus 0.0023
61. 106 Motor Racing Venus Aquarius 0.00231
62. 328 Comedians Mercury Cap / Aqu 0.00245
63. 206 Psychologists Moon Capricorn 0.00374
64. 157 Political Rebels Moon Gemini / Libra 0.00374
65. 120 Tennis Venus Virgo 0.004
66. 310 Infant Mortality Rising Cancer 0.00453
67. 91 Air Crash Victims Mars Virgo 0.00543
68. 1220 Musicians Mercury Capricorn 0.00553
69. 166 Prostitutes Sun Capricorn 0.0058
70. 390 Lesbians Mars Leo 0.0056
71. 170 Classical Music Mars Scorpio 0.0063
72. 354 Aids Victims Venus Virgo 0.00634
73. 473 Pop Musicians Mars Virgo 0.00672
74. 551 Murderers Mars Virgo 0.00804
75. 310 Infant Mortality Mars Cancer 0.00843
76. 1220 Musicians Venus Taurus 0.00862
Thats 76 different projects that prove a statistical link, simply based on the sign and positions mostly of the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars.
I have almost as many distributions by house that show links with similar scores but have left them out of this article for simplicity.
The same research has produced at least as many angular aspects between the planets that are statistically proven, but I have not yet been able to calculate a corresponding ‘ p ‘ figure for these distributions.
As you can see, its impressive, sceptics may try to explain away some of these figures but I’d like to see them try with all of them.
I love that your research challenges some of the long held traditional interpretations of many of these placements. I have Moon in Capricorn and Sun & Mercury in Pisces. w Mars in Cancer. I have a BA in Political Science and am currently pursuing my MS in Psychology. I’d like to think I’m a Thinker and Achiever as well, I’d certainly like to be 🙂
Thanks for the message. I feel that astrology has been hijacked by the Sun sign horoscope columns and far too much emphasis is placed on these signs rather than the total picture.
Hopefully some of my research can challenge some of these assumptions.
Regards
CC
Great work! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Thanks Sandra. It was a labour of love and I enjoyed every minute of it.
CC
Thank you for this! I just finished reading “A Scheme of Heaven” by Alexander Boxer and one of the points he has made about the intersection of science with astrology is that most of the “Studies” have been set up not to measure the efficacy of astrology itself, but to measure individual astrologers. And that for much of history there wasn’t a big enough set of sample data to really prove or disprove any astrological claims. I have been looking around since to see if anyone had bothered to take advantage of the large amounts of available data that are now easily accessible to anyone with the correct skillset and was so glad to see that you had! I’m very much enjoying reading through your backlog of articles and interesting statistical tidbits.
I will dig to see if I can find your article about the stats about house placements next, but if you see this comment before I find it, I’d appreciate being pointed in the right direction!
(Side note, I have Uranus and Neptune conjunct my sun so even though this article was about X-Files it also felt very relevant to my own experience :D)
Thanks very much. I was always attracted to doing astrology research even back in the 1970s but the databank at astro.com is such a brilliant resource and there are many software programmes now that make this kind of task easier. I’m also not sure why there aren’t more people doing this on a large scale but I guess they don’t all have Sun and Moon in Cap in the 12th.
CC
Very interesting, thank you for doing this work!
I notice that some placements show up multiple times (planets in Aquarius, Virgo, and Pisces come up quite a bit), while others don’t place at all (I don’t think any Sag. or Scorpio placements made the cut, for example). Curious what you make of this?
There are certain placements, Venus in Aquarius, Mars in Virgo that for astronomical reasons come up more frequently than others. I don’t have the measure of how much this would affect the findings, but even if we discount those the findings are still staggering.