Below is a companion piece to that posting regarding the testing of the Fagan-Bradley SVP.
This an excerpt from "CRASHING THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE BARRIER, Part II" by Donald Bradley in the August 1968 American Astrology magazine.
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How's This for Mind Boggling?
Single-station studies of the foregoing kind invariably tell the same impressive story. But it was not until one sees the total picture for rainfall over the entire continental U.S. that the mind boggles at the facts and their implications. Figure 8 shows what we mean by mind-boggling statistics. Here is proof, not just evidence of astrology's conceptual validity.
COMPLETE U.S. RAINFALL HISTORY, 1871-1951, IN TERMS OF JUPITER'S HOUR ANGLE AT COMMENCEMENT OF EVERY SIDEREAL MONTH. JUPITER'S MERIDIAN DISTANCE IN CAPRICORN LUNAR INGRESSES PRECEDING 49,576 MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION RECORDS shows highest peak at M.C., then slightly following the DESC., then at the I.C., with the smallest peak at the ASC.
FIGURE 8
The meridional distance of Jupiter at the CAPLUNAR INGRESS moments preceding the 12 dates of heaviest rainfall at each of thousands of rain-recording stations strewn across the nation--a total of 49,576 precipitation maxima--are calculated and plotted as running sums. Not only does Jupiter prefer the upper-culminating region, but a striking 90 degree wave in its distribution exists! Any student of astrology can recognize the pattern; the peaks are in the angular-cusp regions basic in any horoscope. Jupiter plays out his classical Pluvius role when near the Ascendant, Nadir and Descendant as well. When the quadrants are superposed, with exacting probabilities taken account of, the violation of "normalcy" reaches the jarring figure of close to 15 standard deviations. Three SD's would do, and four would suffice to establish the effect as a fact of nature, as an exiting anomaly. To express 15 standard deviations as odds against it all being coincidental would be a rather silly exercise in writing strings of zeroes; in fact, the probability function hasn't even been calculated for levels beyond the sixth or seventh SD. As one noted mathematician stated openly at a professional seminar convened to discuss this very matter. "Ratios this size mean that it is not a statistical fact we are dealing with, but a physical law."
(Bold emphasis added by this poster)
Bob
