The Astrology File: Scientific Proof of the Link Between Star Signs and Human Behavior [Paperback]

Gunter Sachs (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1999

This is not a book of predictions. It is a sensational book which gives conclusive evidence of the connection between events and star signs. Taking the answers to millions of questionnaires from universities, publishers and insurance companies, an institute set up by Gunter Sachs analysed the extensive data, in cooperation with the statistics department of the University of Munich, and the results are revealed in this excellent, and highly readable, book.Marriage, divorce, suicide, academic life, work, illness, death, criminal activities, even driving accidents - all are analysed with user-friendly charts and graphs to enable the reader to spot his own data.

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About the Author

Gunter Sachs was born on 14 November 1932. He became a Sportsman, and then gained international fame as a documentary film-maker, photographer and companion of Bridget Bardot. He has always been passionately interested in astrology and its connection with mathematics/statistics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 351 pages
• Publisher: Orion (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0752826956
• ISBN-13: 978-0752826950
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,735,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars At last, definitive scientific evidence!, March 27, 2000

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Matthew McWilliams - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Astrology File: Scientific Proof of the Link Between Star Signs and Human Behavior (Paperback)

For anyone who has studied astrology in depth and been astounded by its accuracy, here is the book to show to your sceptical friends. This is a thorough examination of how each of the twelve signs fare in relation to marriage, study, employment, death, criminal activity and so on. The book provides abundant meaningful statistics and analyses these clearly and carefully. This text should be of particular interest to psychologists and scientists to broaden their minds or anyone who wants to understand their fellow man a bit better.Thankyou Mr Sachs. Highly Recommended .

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can not be ignored, April 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Astrology File: Scientific Proof of the Link Between Star Signs and Human Behavior (Paperback)

Write a heterodoxical book and watch the numbnuts lie and squerm. Some people who suggest that they know better, have found it impossible to attack the findings so they attack the author as a 'fool'. But Sach didn't do the stats himself - they were carried out by a group of highly professional statistitions from the Ludwig-Maximilian Univeristy of Munich and theAllensbach Institure for Demgraphic Research.
I have no interest in astrology but there is now far too scientific evidence to believe the blockers who do not want to find evidence for what they do not like. Sach's work is good, building on solid material from people like Michel Gauquelin in France and Percy Seymour in England.
Don't be fooled by the blusterers - there is something in astrology and the physics is slowly being unravelled.

5 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is useless., January 18, 2003

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Christopher Mecklin (Murray, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Astrology File: Scientific Proof of the Link Between Star Signs and Human Behavior (Paperback)

Sachs' book is full of tables and impressive looking statistical methods. Unfortunately, the results of the statistical methods are not interpreted correctly. Just because somebody read a statistics textbook and learned how to do a chi-square test doesn't necessarily mean he can apply the methodology correctly. It's just as well this book's out of print. Buy a statistics textbook instead and learn some probability and statistical methodology. Forget about astrology.