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by Defitio 1334 days ago
Personality traits are not mentioned in your references wiki article.

There are plenty of counter examples of other people who are born in the same month than me who are totally different.

There is also a huge difference how people handle sickness like the ones mentioned in the wik article.

The origin of those signs are also totally different and are pure fiction

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>There are plenty of counter examples of other people who are born in the same month than me who are totally different.

That's irrelevant though. He didn't say it is a law of nature that forces development in the same exact way. Just that it's a factor.

What is the concern is how a statistically significant part of those born at X months are affected, compared to those being born at Y months.

Not whether there are exceptions. Of course there will be. People being the same in both groups might even be the majority. But one group (say "born in spring-summer ) having 17% more of something compared to the other is a big thing, and that's whats considered here - even if the rest 83% are the same on that aspect.

There are statistics for these things. Counter examples just means they’re somewhere else in the distribution.
He doesn't have a statistics for what he claims as the wiki article is making a different point.
They didn't claim that these things were true, they said that they're "endlessly fascinated by the effect your birth month may have on you"
That implies things which I countered.

What's the problem?