• noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What on earth does this mean? I’m not a world-class expert in mathology but I’ve never seen this kind of relative comparison before.

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      2 months ago

      Well I suppose what they’re saying is no response had a success rate equal to or greater than fifty percent, but yeah it’s not exactly reported academically.

    • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      None of the 152 people in the trial correctly guessed correctly on more than 5 profiles, out of the 12 profiles they were given.

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      I think they just left off the subject of each phrase; 0 out of 152 astrologists did better than 5 out of 12 questions. Though it is phrased weirdly either way.