Astrological Studies Needed

[Czarcasm]

I'm looking for links to professional studies on the veracity of astrology. The bigger, the better.

[Gr8wight]

I'm looking for links to professional studies on the veracity of astrology. The bigger, the better.

Richard has an article on his blog, Skeptico, about that. Do a search for "what do you mean test astrology?"

[Czarcasm]

Thank you. That's the sort of thing I'm looking for.

[Ersby]

This is a good source:

http://www.rudolfhsmit.nl/hpage.htm

[Michael C]

This is a good source:

http://www.rudolfhsmit.nl/hpage.htm

Rudolf Smit's site is the best resource I know of for serious studies of astrology. Have a look at these pages as well:

http://www.skepsis.nl/astrot.html

http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/AstroSkc.htm

[Thing]

A PhD on astrology was awarded last year by Southampton University on "Applications of astrology to health psychology: psychological and astrological factors and fertility treatment outcome". I've not been able to read the thesis so I don't know how big a study it was.

http://www.socsci.soton.ac.uk/sws/People/default.php?StaffType=Postgraduate&NavContext=Discipline

[JJM]

The book The Hundredth Monkey, from CSICOP, has three chapters on the subject, reprinted from Skeptical Inquirer. If you have Online access, look in 1986-7, author of 2 articles Geoffrey Dean, and the third is in News and Comment.
http://www.amazon.com/Hundredth-Monkey-Other-Paradigms-Paranormal/dp/0879756551/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200856241&sr=1-2

You might also look for articles on the Forer effect. Circa 1949, Forer demonstrated that astrological personality charts simply play on the things we like to believe about ourselves. For example, most of us like to believe we: are loyal to our friends, are strict but fair, like to help people, are friendly (but sometimes like some quiet time, alone), etc. Randi has a demonstration of this on his video (available from JREF) "Secrets of the Psychics" (which is inexpensive, and licensed for institutional use).

[RichardR]

Richard has an article on his blog, Skeptico, about that. Do a search for "what do you mean test astrology?"

What do you mean test astrology? (http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/02/what_do_you_mea.html)

[Czarcasm]

I want to thank y'all for the great cites. I discovered long ago that fighting ignorance is best done as a group effort, and this group is definitely one of my top two.

[JJM]

Carlson, Shawn "A Double-Blind Test of Astrology" Nature 1985, vol. 318, 419-425.

[fuelair]

A PhD on astrology was awarded last year by Southampton University on "Applications of astrology to health psychology: psychological and astrological factors and fertility treatment outcome". I've not been able to read the thesis so I don't know how big a study it was.

http://www.socsci.soton.ac.uk/sws/People/default.php?StaffType=Postgraduate&NavContext=Discipline
I have a suspicion I know how big and how rigorous. And I am not psychic.:)