http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3600313.stm :
>Is your birthday linked to luck?
>
>Are people with certain birthdays more likely to pick winners?
>Are you born lucky? Scientists are trying to find out if your birthday
>determines how successful you are.
>Participants in the study, launched this week by Professor Richard
>Wiseman at the Edinburgh Science Festival, will fill in a web
>questionnaire.
>
>He hopes the answers will reveal how people's personalities relate to the
>month in which they are born.
>
>Professor Wiseman - who believes luck and success are linked - will
>publish his findings later this month.

Vu que l'étude est fondée sur un questionnaire subjectif, je le vois
mal parti pour prouver quoi que ce soit

>Professor Wiseman's study will also examine if people born on the 13th
>of the month are unluckier than people born on other days.
>
>He said the research was not linked to astrology, but admitted the
>findings could help suggest personality traits for star signs.
>
>"It might be possible to say 'that person has got the personality of a Leo
>or a Capricorn'."

Surtout si on n'a rien défini comme étant la personnalité d'un Lion ou d'un
Capricorne et que les outils de 'mesure' restent subjectifs.

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"The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found."
--Miguel de Unamuno, “My Religion,” Essays and Soliloquies (1924).

En creusant un peu plus, on trouve:
http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/minisites/luckfactor/
>The Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind
>by Dr Richard Wiseman

"The Luck Factor" édité par Random House, ça peut pas s'inventer !

Apparemment, il ne faut pas comprendre chance au sens d'augmenter
ses chances de gagner au loto. C'est plutot un bouquin du style Dale
Carnegie.

>Looking at the results Wiseman was able to identify four main factors
>which explained living a lucky and unlucky life. He was then able to
>show a group of people that considered themselves unlucky, how to
>think and behave like lucky people.

Sachant que l'étude est encore en cours, j'imagine que le bouquin doit
largement anticiper sur les résultats. L'editeur nous explique donc que
la fameuse personnalité Lion ou Capricorne peut être totalement
retournée par de simple règles pour devenir plus 'chanceux'.
La destinée n'est plus ce qu'elle était.

_________________
"The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found."
--Miguel de Unamuno, “My Religion,” Essays and Soliloquies (1924).