14 DAY TRIAL // With all the calculations you made and the perfect sign match, you did not manage to hook up with that hot supersexy "bomb".
In fact, do not try your charm this way: a new research led by Dr David Voas from The University of Manchester just came to enhance what was already known: you are just wasting your time when employing stars to get a wife/husband and keeping her/him.
Voas analyzed the birthdays of all 20 million husbands and wives in England and Wales, employing 2001 census data and did not find any link between attraction and horoscope signs.
"If the more than twenty million married people in England and Wales are any guide, there's no special compatibility between people of particular signs. If there is even the smallest tendency for Virgos to fancy Capricorns, or for Libras to like Leos, then we should see it in the marriage statistics. When you have a population of ten million couples, then even if only one pair in a thousand is influenced by the stars, you'd have ten thousand more couples than expected with certain combinations of signs. There's no such evidence, though: the numbers are just what we'd predict on the basis of chance", said Voas
"Astrologers are likely to argue that full birth charts are needed to predict personality accurately. But what ordinary people talk about is sun signs; if those are useless when it comes to sizing up a mate, then that knocks a big hole in everyday belief," he added.
"In any case, the basic sun signs are important even in professional charts. If they had any influence at all, however small, the giant magnifying glass of this huge sample would detect it. There's nothing there."
But Voas does not hope that the popularity of astrologers will decrease, whatever the scientific proof may be. "I'm under no illusion that these findings will undermine astrology's popularity. The enthusiasm for zodiac-based personality profiling seems undiminished by hundreds of previous studies debunking astrology. An internet search on Google for 'love' and 'astrology' produces three and a half million hits", said Voas.
"And the books on relationships by the astrologer Linda Goodman - including Sun Signs and Love Signs - have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide in the past 40 years. The public appetite for horoscopes makes media astrologers wealthy. These results won't put them out of business. When it comes to love, people will try anything," added Voas.