> There's no question that impressive looking  trends come and go, but
> in astrological research we have a history of not even looking for
> them. We have been mostly looking at static graphs that sometimes
> don't even have a trend in them. Often we are only looking at a short-
> term spike that raised the overall score for a particular factor.

> If anyone had been seriously looking for trends they would have
> noticed that the Mars Effect for Sportsmen didn't even exist after the
> first 73 years of the data. It came and it completely fizzled out by
> 16th Feb 1890.