What's the difference between astrology and fortune telling?

Constellation fortune-telling has certain scientific basis.

Astrology cannot be called astrology. Some scientists reject astrology because they feel that there is no real theoretical basis. Astrology is called astrology because it studies the relationship between the sun, the moon, the earth and other planets, while astrology is only based on the relationship between the stars in the sky. There is an essential difference between the two. Back to the topic, scientists now say that astrology has no basis, so why not use scientific basis to break this "superstition" they think? In fact, many scientists have done such experiments in the past and all ended in failure.

There are two reasons for failure, one is self-attribution and the other is Barnum effect. Self-attribution means that people's cognition of things is not so pure after being disturbed by the outside world, so they will choose the category of psychological cognition to answer questions. Now astrological divination has been widely circulated, and everyone knows some information about constellations more or less. During the experiment,