What is numerology?
Numerology is any belief in the divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events. People often ask the question, What is Numerology? Skeptics also want to know if it is a valid method of divination.
It is also the study of the numerical value of the letters in words, names and ideas. It is often associated with the paranormal, alongside astrology and similar divinatory arts. Despite the long history of numerological ideas, the word “numerology” is not recorded in English before c.1907. The term numerologist can be used for those who place faith in numerical patterns and draw pseudo-scientific inferences from them, even if those people do not practice traditional numerology. For example, in his 1997 book Numerology: Or What Pythagoras Wrought, mathematician Underwood Dudley uses the term to discuss practitioners of the Elliott wave principle of stock market analysis.
Skeptics argue that numbers have no occult significance and cannot by themselves influence a person’s life. Skeptics therefore regard numerology as a superstition and a pseudoscience that uses numbers to give the subject a veneer of scientific authority. Two studies have been done investigating numerological claims, both producing negative results, one in the UK in 1993, and one in 2012 in Israel. The experiment in Israel involved a professional numerologist and 200 participants. The experiment was repeated twice and still produced negative results.
This again askes the question of What is Numerology? If there are Numerologists out there online that can offer more insight on the topic of Numerology and What is Numerology, I invite you to join me on SynergyCafe for a Video Interview to discuss the topic in more detail.
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