大多數職業占星家依靠占星基礎對人格測試和完成有關的預測，
The majority of professional astrologers rely on performing astrology-based personality tests and making relevant predictions about the remunerator's future. 大多數專業占星家依靠進行 astrology-based 的人格測試, 並對 remunerator 的未來做出相關的預測。 [3]:83。對那些繼續相信占星術的人，被描述為”不顧事實，他們的信仰沒有經過驗證的科學依據，並且實際上有強烈的證據反對[8]。" 天體物理學家奈爾·德葛拉司·泰森對占星術的信仰發表了評論，他說"知道如何思考的一部分是知道自然規律如何塑造我們周圍的世界。沒有這些知識，沒有這種能力，你就很容易成為那些想利用你的人的犧牲品[9]。"
^ 1.01.11.2Zarka, Philippe. Astronomy and astrology. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 2011, 5 (S260): 420–425. doi:10.1017/S1743921311002602.
^Hartmann, P; Reuter, M.; Nyborga, H. The relationship between date of birth and individual differences in personality and general intelligence: A large-scale study. Personality and Individual Differences. May 2006, 40 (7): 1349–1362. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.017. To optimise the chances of finding even remote relationships between date of birth and individual differences in personality and intelligence we further applied two different strategies. The first one was based on the common chronological concept of time (e.g. month of birth and season of birth). The second strategy was based on the (pseudo-scientific) concept of astrology (e.g. Sun Signs, The Elements, and astrological gender), as discussed in the book Astrology: Science or superstition? by Eysenck and Nias (1982).
Chapter 7: Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding. science and engineering indicators 2006. National Science Foundation. [28 July 2012]. （原始内容存档于2011-12-30）. About three-fourths of Americans hold at least one pseudoscientific belief; i.e., they believed in at least 1 of the 10 survey items[29]" ..." Those 10 items were extrasensory perception (ESP), that houses can be haunted, ghosts/that spirits of dead people can come back in certain places/situations, telepathy/communication between minds without using traditional senses, clairvoyance/the power of the mind to know the past and predict the future, astrology/that the position of the stars and planets can affect people's lives, that people can communicate mentally with someone who has died, witches, reincarnation/the rebirth of the soul in a new body after death, and channeling/allowing a "spirit-being" to temporarily assume control of a body.
Bok, Bart J.; Lawrence E. Jerome; Paul Kurtz. Objections to Astrology: A Statement by 186 Leading Scientists. Patrick Grim (编). Philosophy of Science and the Occult. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1982: 14–18. ISBN 0-87395-572-2.
^Allum, Nick. What Makes Some People Think Astrology Is Scientific?. Science Communication. 13 December 2010, 33 (3): 341–366 [2017-11-11]. doi:10.1177/1075547010389819. （原始内容存档于2016-12-02）. This underlies the "Barnum effect". Named after the 19th-century showman Phineas T. Barnum, whose circus act provided "a little something for everyone", it refers to the idea that people believe a statement about their personality that is vague or trivial if they think that it derives from some systematic procedure tailored especially for them (Dickson & Kelly, 1985; Furnham & Schofield, 1987; Rogers & Soule, 2009; Wyman & Vyse, 2008). For example, the more birth detail is used in an astrological prediction or horoscope, the more credulous people tend to be (Furnham, 1991). However, confirmation bias means that people do not tend to pay attention to other information that might disconfirm the credibility of the predictions.
^ 12.012.112.212.312.4Hoskin, Michael (编). The Cambridge concise history of astronomy Printing 2003. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. ISBN 0521572916.
^ 14.014.1Arjomand, Kamran. The Emergence of Scientific Modernity in Iran: Controversies Surrounding Astrology and Modern Astronomy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Iranian Studies (Taylor and Francis, for the International Society for Iranian Studies). 1997, 30: 5–24. doi:10.1080/00210869708701857.
