Yes, that’s right. The configuration of the heavens at the moment of your birth determines your ability to operate a motor vehicle. They did a study and everything!
Here’s an idea for your, Mr. Romanov. Why don’t you take a statistics class? I mean, I guess it feels good fucking yourself in the ass with your head, since it’s pointy and all, but perhaps you might stop to consider that some of your customers might actually believe your bullshit and make poor desicions based on it. Let’s say it together now: “Correlation does not equal causation.”
Sagittarius: They’re risk-takers, but they’re experienced risk takers, and know that stunt driving should be left to the professionals. This is a talkative group, and they should consider putting their cell phone down and just driving.
Pffft!
Never had a cellphone, not a big talker, definitely not a risk taker.
OK… so during that time when they’re risk-takers but still haven’t figured out the relationship between “speed of car”, “radius of turn” and “distance to approaching car”, Sags are a different sign?
Are Pisces and Aquarius better drivers in the rain?
It’s not an issue of correlation vs. causation so much as it is a fundamental defect in the method of hypothesis testing. To wit:
Here’s the problem: with a large enough sample size, every single difference between any two groups is going to be found statistically significant. With that many data points, they could’ve found a significant relationship between driving records and any other variable you like, be it race, religion or the driver’s favorite football team.
Actually, that’s Ms. Romanov. She was just now on a morning news and talk show (CTV’s Canada AM), plugging her book.
I didn’t really watch the interview (I was getting coffee from the kitchen, but I could hear it from the other room), and it didn’t sound to me like the host was taking it seriously. More like “here’s something from the whodathunkit file.” And indeed, the Canadian Press wire calls it a “tongue-in-cheek” study in this link from the Canada AM website:
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So there was a point to it, but not the one you might think. And further down in the story, an insurance industry spokesperson says the industry likely will not pay any attention to Romanov’s findings.
Well, obviously this guy doesn’t know too much…heh…
I’m a Gemini! I have had 4 tickets - three before I was 18, which in Ohio means 1 fine, 1 90-day suspension, and 1 6-month suspension. I wrecked my Toyota, my Suzuki, and my Hyundai! I even wrecked the Hyundai twice!
Not even with a quarter so you could call your Mommy in case I didn’t act like a gentleman…?
(Well, there goes my shot at kicking him out the passenger door at 75mph… )
An astrologer would not find this interesting. The position of the sun at birth, the “sun sign”, is the most single important iindicator, but only one of many. And if one were pressed to offer a predictive factor for driving skills, it would probably be the position of, and influences on, Mercury, which governs mental processes. To oversimplify, one with Mercury in Libra thinks “like a Libra”, with a strong aesthetic bent and an “on the other hand…” approach to things. Upside: always considers the opposing view, downside, indecisive and favors the “pretty” over the “smart”.
Note to Matt. 'Fraid not. You are a “double” if your sun sign and your rising sign are the same, which is to say, born at sunrise or thereabouts. “Doubles” tend to evoke their sun signs in a much more dominant and immediate fashion: a double Aries is aggressive and risky, double Taurus is stubborn but industrious, double Gemini simply will not shut up but has a talent for language…so on and so forth.
On the other hand, I can see where someone defines “good driver” differently than I do and would accept that their assessment is based on their definition.
But, I would also reserve the right to identify myself as a good driver based on my definition.
