John McGervey, a physicist at Case Western Reserve University, looked up the birth dates of more than 16,000 scientists listed in American Men of Science and 6,000 politicians listed in Who’s Who in American Politics and found the distribution of their signs was random, the signs uniformly distributed throughout the year. Bernard Silverman at Michigan State University obtained the records of 3,000 married couples in Michigan and found no correlation between their signs and astrologers’ predictions about compatible pairs of signs.
