Yes, I don’t know if it is one (I just hope it is :-). But in one of the books by Beck-Bornholdt and Dubben it is interpreted as a mock or at least a good example of how you can prove everything you like if you misuse statistics or your knowledge of probability is sufficiently crippled.
I didn’t see any evidence on the page, either in the editorial or customer reviews, that this was intended as a “mock”. It looks like a seriously intended book of pseudo-science from the Amazon page.
Someone even wrote a whole book that demonstrates the misuse and failure in the use of probability: The Astrology File: Scientific Proof of the Link Between Star Signs and Human Behavior
Hmmm. The customer reviews seem to suggest that it wasn’t interpreted as “a mock”.
I was particularly amused by the list of what customers eventually purchased after looking at the amazon page for this book:
Yes, I don’t know if it is one (I just hope it is :-). But in one of the books by Beck-Bornholdt and Dubben it is interpreted as a mock or at least a good example of how you can prove everything you like if you misuse statistics or your knowledge of probability is sufficiently crippled.
I didn’t see any evidence on the page, either in the editorial or customer reviews, that this was intended as a “mock”. It looks like a seriously intended book of pseudo-science from the Amazon page.