Vän till kungen sköt sig i huvudet
Inrikes 2011-05-09 11:24:56 Visningar: 351 - Visa på karta Anmäl nyhetenMiljardären och Opel-arvtagaren Gunter Sachs sköt sig själv i huvudet i sin lyxvilla i Gstaad på lördagen, skriver The Telegraph. Han blev 78 år gammal.
Sachs, som fanns i den svenske kungens vänkrets, var en filantrop, matematiker, konstsamlare och berömd fotograf. Man misstänker att han led av sjukdomen Alzheimers och att han därför tog sitt liv, skriver Expressen.se.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunter_Sachs
2011-05-11 12:04:57 AnmälAstrological researchIn the 1990s, Sachs made the international newspapers again after he commissioned major research into sun sign astrology using large samples.[citation needed] Sachs set out to test the assumptions of astrologers by gathering a team of scientists and statisticians which, over two years, analysed the lives of nearly one million men and women.
"In every case, there were significant results, way beyond what is explicable through mere coincidence," he is quoted as saying by the Daily Mail newspaper on 6 November 1997.
To facilitate the research he set up the "Institute for the Empirical and Mathematical Examination of the Possible Truth of Astrology in Relation to Human Behaviour".[citation needed] Then, using established statistical techniques and with help from the official statistics office in Switzerland (where the authorities have recorded the date and hour of birth of every citizen since 1875), his team gathered statistics on every aspect of human life.
His methodology and the statistical analysis have been criticized by mathematicians. They found serious errors in all parts and deny any statistical significance after the necessary corrections in his data.[9]