Introverted and Intuitive (INFP)

"To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose."

-- FLorence Nightingale.

I've had my astrology students meditate on this statement because it is so intriguing.

If you remember hearing about a government betting pool on Middle Eastern developments, such as assassination attempts on Prime Minister Sharon, coups in Jordan and Syria, the who, what, when and where of the next Al Quaeda strike ... .. The Wisdom of Crowds devotes a chapter to this and why it would work very well in predicting the future, although it will never be permitted to work in America.

I was interested to read this because the moment I heard of the betting pool, I thought it was one of the smartest ways possible to tap into what everyone knows but can't prove. Of course it is morally offensive but most of what goes on in the world is morally offensive as well. As an intuitive, it made sense to me immediately.

Psychics, police and, I guess, sociological economists have in common the fact that we are trained to look at people's real behavior and not the conventions or appearances which disguise it.

This reminds me of that quizzical quote by Florence Nightingale: "To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose."

Check out Nightengale's Polar-Area Diagram dramatizing needless deaths in the Crimean War caused by unsanitary conditions.