We need your help in gathering new data for a study on couple's compatibility. This is a follow-up – the first study gave very promising results, but now we need to replicate the work with higher standards of data collection.

The Successful Pilot Study
Ed Snow, leader of the AstroCompatiblity research project, worked with a statistics professor at Lake Forest College. The professor tested the ability of two astrological software programs to predict couples' compatibility as a class project. Both programs generated numerical compatibility scores based solely on birth data. Higher scores indicated compatibility potential and lower scores predicted the opposite result.

The students compared unambiguous examples of both failed and compatible marriages to determine if, on average, couples in happy, compatible marriages scored higher than couples in dysfunctional marriages ending in an ugly divorce. They found that with both programs, the average score for the compatible group was significantly (statistically) higher than the average score for the failed marriage group. There was only a "1 in 2,000" possibility that their results could be attributed to chance.

Responding to Skeptics
Unfortunately, these fabulous results wouldn't pass muster with the skeptics because most of the data were from astrologers' own charts and those of their clients. Skeptics could claim that there was conscious or unconscious pre-selection of test subjects that would fit the general astrological paradigm for compatibility or conflict. For example, if the astrologer had seen synastry trines they might have been more likely to submit a couple for the compatible group. To address this possible objection we need to gather another set of couples’ data for which astrologers have never seen the charts.

The Astrological compatibility Research results are now available.