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Could the ‘Pisces Effect’ Predict Olympic Winners in Beijing?
Olympicstarsign.com connects the position of the planets with sporting success
August 18, 2008 - Press Dispensary - As Olympic fervour grips the nation, a new website linking sports and star signs is set to strike gold. Olympicstarsign.com (http://www.olympicstarsign.com ) examines the correlation between winners of Olympic medals in different disciplines and their dates of birth, and presents statistically significant evidence that Olympic success is written in the stars.
Shunning generic horoscope guff in favour of a sophisticated study, the site presents the research of statistician Kenneth Mitchell to show the science behind Zodiac signs and Olympic achievement. After cross-checking all the Olympic medals won since the modern event began in 1896 against their winners’ star signs, Mitchell discovered that contestants born in certain months were more likely to thrive in particular events.
Mitchell uses the term the ‘Pisces Effect’ to describe these remarkable results, as athletes with the star sign Pisces, the Latin name for fish, have received around 30% more medals than any other sign for events such as swimming and water polo.
The probability that the Pisces swimmers in Beijing could have won the number of medals awarded to date by chance is one in 2,500.
Other patterns of domination have been confirmed in Beijing: historically, Scorpios – the star sign with a sting in its tail – have excelled in Olympic sabre fencing competitions and, in 2008, two out of the three medallists in the men’s individual sabre event were Scorpio. The odds of this result are one in 2,000.
In the history of the games, the overall Olympic medal haul for athletes born under Capricorn, Aquarius and Aries is significantly higher compared with other star signs. Astrologers believe that Aries are more likely to have a strong athletic body and personality attributes ranging from confidence to courage. Team GB gold medallists Rebecca Adlington and Nicole Cooke are, respectively, Aquarius and Aries.
And Team GB includes many more athletes whose sport correlates with their ‘successful’ star sign. Ones to watch include rowers Matthew Wells, Josh West and Steve Williams, all born under Aries, and pole vaulters Kate Dennison and Steve Lewis – both Taurus, a sign awarded proportionately far more medals for pole vaulting that its counterparts in the Zodiac.
Nick Redding, project manager for Olympicstarsign.com, says: “This site could shock the scientific community to its core and, for sporting pundits, help predict the chances of success for British talent in Beijing. The ‘Pisces Effect’ is the first study of its kind to conclusively connect the stars and planets to prowess in the pool, victory in the velodrome, or success in Beijing’s Bird's Nest stadium.”
The site provides an overall analysis of the ‘Pisces Effect’ and a sign-by-sign breakdown, showing the Zodiac dates when it is more likely that an athlete will win a disproportionate number of medals in an Olympic event.
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Notes for editors
Kenneth Mitchell discovered the ‘Pisces Effect’ using business intelligence tool Qlikview. He wrote an application that would answer questions about Olympic medallists and filter the results by field. In the process, he discovered a direct relationship between specific Olympic sports and star signs, with statistically significant results.
Mitchell has a Ph.D. from Glasgow University on statistical ecology and spent 33 years working on statistical data analysis.
For further information, please contact:
Kenneth Mitchell, IT consultant, Logicworks
Tel: 01482 343913
Email:
Site: www.olympicstarsign.com
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