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Julia Sweeney on astrology - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjturKoFsg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjturKoFsg (The background is she just found out she wa

• hyp0 12y ago
  Astrology is obviously nonsense, but it seems plausible that the season of birth could have a personality effect: the cold dead of winter, with little fresh food vs spring etc, also from the attitudes of surrounding adults. Of course, different near the equator, and phase-shifted in the southern hemisphere, and... much less pronounced in modern times, with supermarkets, refrigeration, air-conditioning/heating, imported foods, and wider social presence (newspapers, TV, radio, internet, phone) etc.
  • Terr_ 12y ago
    The socially-constructed age-cohort you go into is huge too. Want better grades and performance at sports? Be months older than your classmates.
    • allendoerfer 12y ago
      The reverse is true, too: Want better performance than people of the same age? Have had more training than them. I suspect this applies especially to language or logic related tasks. We will likely never find out, variance seems to be extremely high, while the actual differences are very low.
      • eru 12y ago
        There are actual studies. Lots of professional athletes were in the older part of their cohort when they were younger. So the effect Terr_ described seems to outweigh the one you describe.