Albatrossprox
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I have heard that a 80% success rate for a predictive technique is considered excellent in astrology; in fact, many astrologers work with techniques that will give not much better than 50%. Even if a technique works 80% of the time statistically, that's still 20% of the time that it doesn't.
Many people who see astrologers are highly superstitious and I think you have to question if their motivations for "knowing" their future are the best for their psychological health. In fact, I think a lot of the centuries-old seedy reputation for astrology comes from feeding into peoples' insecurities with techniques that may or may not work in the first place. My question is, how is a practicing astrologer comfortable with potentially changing a whole person's mental outlook for a technique that will fail so often?
Let us say that, sometimes, the astrologer will predict a difficult time related to the home, for example, and caution an individual to take care of the home life. At that point you can say, "better safe than sorry". But ultimately, predicting things like misfortune, marital strife, disease, or on the other hand good fortune, a promotion, good health... all these things must carry some psychological burden for the individual. I have phrased this a little strongly, but I never see this question covered. If ethics is important in law or accounting we can all agree it's important in astrology.
Many people who see astrologers are highly superstitious and I think you have to question if their motivations for "knowing" their future are the best for their psychological health. In fact, I think a lot of the centuries-old seedy reputation for astrology comes from feeding into peoples' insecurities with techniques that may or may not work in the first place. My question is, how is a practicing astrologer comfortable with potentially changing a whole person's mental outlook for a technique that will fail so often?
Let us say that, sometimes, the astrologer will predict a difficult time related to the home, for example, and caution an individual to take care of the home life. At that point you can say, "better safe than sorry". But ultimately, predicting things like misfortune, marital strife, disease, or on the other hand good fortune, a promotion, good health... all these things must carry some psychological burden for the individual. I have phrased this a little strongly, but I never see this question covered. If ethics is important in law or accounting we can all agree it's important in astrology.