This has been posted a few times in various formats. I merged the comments into <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208252">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208252</a>.
I'm suprised the post and comments here do not cite the famous Nature paper by S. Carlson - "A Double-blind Test of Astrology" - which performed a very similar experiment 40 years ago.<p>(and yes, astrology didn't work back then too)<p>[1] <a href="https://muller.lbl.gov/papers/Astrology-Carlson.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://muller.lbl.gov/papers/Astrology-Carlson.pdf</a>
"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people"<p>No amount of studies will change the mind of people who fall for woo. Because they believe what they want to believe, not what's likely true.