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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Flag Desecration Through the Zodiac

Marty Lederman

What a public service! The Washington Post leaves no stone unturned. (Click on "By Astrological Sign.") Proving once again just how fundamentally incompatible Scorpios and Capricorns truly are.

UPDATE: Okay, this is really spooky: In the vote in the House of Representatives, it was again the Capricorns most likely to vote for the constitutional amendment (tied with Aquarians, actually), and the Scorpios who were most likely to vote against! Coincidence? You be the judge . . . .

(Thanks to Katherine for running this down . . . .)

Comments:

Um...

With all due respect, WTF?
 

It would be interesting to see if the voting patterns differed significantly from random.

Everyone voted, so you just need a binomial distribution for each sign (null hypothesis: p=0.5). I don't know much about statistics, but I think that most stats program would be able to analyze the variance and spit out a number for the probability that the results are significantly different from the null.

Wow... this is even sillier than my discussion of http://disenchantedidealist.blogspot.com/2006/06/x-men-and-equal-protection.htmlthe U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling that the X-Men aren't human. Time for me to stop and go to sleep, I think.
 

Shaq: Isn't it possible McConnell's vote can be explained by the fact that he's a Pisces?

;-)
 

That really is just too funny.
 

just wondering if there has been a statistical analysis yet of voting based on left hand dominant versus right hand dominant, paper or plastic, or perhaps most important, boxers or briefs...
 

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