Re-evaluating the Gauquelin Data

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1. Introduction
2. Expected and Observed planetary frequencies in the Gauquelin professional groups
3. The Ertel Enigma
4. Report by the French Skeptics, 1982-96
5. The Work of Arno Müller
6. From the Archives
7. Synastry Effects in the Gauquelin 'Heredity' Data
8. Poets and the Moon
9. Character traits
10. Venus
11. Database of Character-Traits
12. Introvert-Extravert
13. Physicians and Sports Champion Data
14. Where's the Data?
15. Was It Significant?
16. A Fourfold Effect
17. The Shape of the Gauquelin Professional-Data Effect
18. Astro-Psychological Problems
19. Françoise and Michel, a Productive Partnership

4 Report by the French Skeptics, 1982-96

Two databases exist from the French sceptics CFEPP report on sports champions, (The Mars Effect, 1996, Benski), one larger than the other: n=1120 and n=1066), both here available.

4a and 4b The two databases (in .csv format).  Ten columns here used are: name of sports champion, year, month, day, hour, minute of birth, place, timezone, latitude and longitude. The smaller data-set was alluded to in the Benski report, while the larger one was discussed by Jan Nienhuys only after its publication, as being more complete, and also error-corrected.

4e A 24 hour bar-chart of the data shows the great midnight-hour deficit, which is normal in Gauquelin data-sets.

In the opening words of its first chapter, the French 'Benski Report' presented its categorical-negative conclusion:

"The CFEPP has concluded a study based on more than a thousand athletes in order to assess Michel Gauquelin's "neo-astrological" theory. This study does not support Gauquelin's theory and it shows no evidence of any influence whatsoever of Mars on the birth of athletes."

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