HOROSCOPE PRESENTATION

Horoscopes

A presentaTIOn BY Jessica jausch

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What are horoscopes?

What arehoroscopes?

a short explanation

⭐Horoscope (also celestial map or chart) is most important point of astrology⭐it means graphic and tabular illustrtation ⭐12 zodiac signs subdevided in 30° in a circle

Aries

Cancer

Gemini

Taurus

Scorpio

Leo

Libra

Virgo

Sagittarius

Pisces

Aquarius

Capricorn

The origins of the horoscope

and their function

⭐in the 18th century: strong belief that planets and stars affect the lives on earth⭐example: Birth horoscope shows life span, character traits etc. ⭐horoscopes are supposed to lead to self awareness

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Scientific view

Why are horoscopes not scientific?

Experiments and more

⭐horoscopes haven been scientifically tested multiple times⭐most correct answers by astrology are most likely coincidences ⭐accuracy is too low ⭐result: astrology not acknowledged as scientific method of gaining information

Experiments

1968

Michel Gauquelin

Gave 150 participants a "personalized" horoscope,everyone recieved the same though

1985

Shawn Carlson

Double-blind test:different astrologers gave contrary answers

The "Barnum-Effect"

⭐ the problem with horoscopes: they are vague and universal⭐"Barnum-Effect": interpretative statements, where the majority of people feel addressed ⭐example: Japans higher abortion rate after new years horoscope

03

Why do people believe in it

How many people believe in it?

Germany

25% think that stars influence our lives

USA

over 50% think that horoscopes are scientific

"Perhaps that's why they like to project their dependency onto something else, be it a conspiracy of Wall Street bankers or a constellation of stars."

Theodor W. Adorno

Possible reasons why people believe in horoscopes

Hope

social media

Responsibility

pandemic is tiring, people try to find some hope

people are supposed to stay at home, so they use social medias more often,easier access and different to magazines, there is no paywall

taking a look at things you can't change, giving responsibility to the stars rather than themselves

Sources

Text sources Picture sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horoscope (opened on 16.01.2022) https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/astrologie-ohne-bezug-zum-himmel-horoskop-unsinn-im-100.html (opened on 16.01.2022) https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/geschickte-formulierungen-sind-alles-das-universal-horoskop-100.html (opened on 16.01.2022) https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/horoskop-warum-so-viele-menschen-an-astrologie-glauben-a-1128077.html (opened on 16.01.2022) https://newsbeezer.com/chileeng/the-scientist-who-used-a-serial-killer-to-test-astrology-2/ (opened on 16.01.2022) https://www.demokratie-geschichte.de/koepfe/2267 (opened on 16.01.2022)

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