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Volume 7: Number 2: Article 3
Puzzling Eminence Effects Might Make Good Sense
Suitbert Ertel, Institute of Psychology, Georg-August-University,
Goesslerstrasse 14, 3400 Goettingen, Germany
According to Gauquelin's eminence hypothesis, planetary effects increase
with increasing professional renown. The author's former findings, however,
did not always support this hypothesis. In some cases planetary effects
went down, or first up and then down, with increasing eminence. Mueller's
recent unexpected results with very eminent professionals, which showed
a considerable weakening of planetary effects instead of an amplification,
gave rise to the hypothesis that the relationship of planetary effects
to eminence might be curvilinear, instead of linear, across all planets
and professions. Thus previous results suggesting linear relationships
might have been due to restricted eminence sampling. By extending the
analyses to athletes (Olympic medallists), scientists, and actors covering
a wider range of eminence, marked curvilinear patterns did in fact emerge.
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