What does fortune-telling signal mean?

Can fortune telling really tell a person's fate?

Taking China's fortune telling as an example, some fortune tellers use the theory of Zhouyi's Eight Diagrams and Five Elements to draw a conclusion by observing the comprehensive factors such as names, birthdays, faces and palms, and think that this can predict a person's fate.

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However, from a scientific point of view, this method has no exact law. For example, people with the same date of birth may have completely different life trajectories under the influence of factors such as birth in different regions, different families, educational background and career choices.

For another example, sometimes fortune tellers use coincidence to make predictions, such as "You have a relationship that will end in August". If the fortune teller recalls in the future and finds that a relationship really ended in August, then he will think that the predicted result has been reached and take the fortune teller's words as truth. However, from a scientific point of view, this is just a coincidence. In fact, many people in the world end or start relationships every day, and August has no special status.

To sum up, fortune-telling can't accurately predict a person's fate, but this cultural phenomenon still exists, and it satisfies some people's curiosity and entertainment needs to some extent.