The Curse That Starts Today

HigherIQ · Feb 17, 2026 · 5m

00:00 — Introduction 00:06 — The Fire Horse Curse 01:56 — The Algorithm That Creates What It Predicts 02:05 — Wrap Up Sources: - The Year of the Fire Horse: Why Did Births Plummet in Japan in 1966? (Nippon.com (Kikkawa Tōru, Nov 2025)): https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g02550/ - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Algorithmic Assessments, Transparency, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies (Information Systems Research (Bauer & Gill, 2024)): https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/isre.2023.1217 - The curse of the Fire-Horse: How superstition impacted fertility rates in Japan (World Bank Blogs (Mar…