A TEST OF NUMEROLOGY: BIRTH NUMBERS DO NOT PREDICT NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

JeremyE C Genovese

A TEST OF NUMEROLOGY: BIRTH NUMBERS DO NOT PREDICT NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

JeremyE C Genovese

Education and Counseling, School of

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Abstract

This paper tests a claim made by numerologists – the belief that the digits of a person’s birth date summed to a single integer, called the birth number, has predictive power. In order to test this claim the birth number was calculated for persons winning Nobel Prizes between the years 1901 and 2010. The distribution of birth numbers for prize winners did not differ significantly from chance (χ2 = 4.92, df = 8, p = 0.77). The distribution of birth numbers between winners of different prize categories also did not differ significantly from chance (χ2 = 28.9, df = 40 , p = .90). These results provide no support for the claims of numerology.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis
Volume	13
Issue number	2
State	Published - 2017

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