Swoboda's law, science or divination

The Swoboda law It is also known as the Biological Rhythms Law and consider that People must program their tasks following a series of cycles. In other words, Swoboda's law considers that people are under the influence of several biological rhythms and, to be more productive, they should consider such rhythms. Being able to know what the biological rhythm of a person will also allow him to know at what time of the day he has a higher performance, according to this law.

According to this law, the person can carry out the activities with the greatest complexity at the time of better performance and those simpler tasks at the time of lower productivity.

However, today it is known that this Swoboda law is just a pseudoscientific proposal, although someone still wants to apply it.

Swoboda's law and biorhythms

Through biorers, various aspects of a person's life were intended to predict. Those who believe in biorhythms consider that a person's life is determined by rhythmic biological cyclesI would affect their abilities in different areas, such as physics, emotional and psychological. These cycles would begin at birth and, following a mathematical model, a person's ability could be predicted in each of such areas.

The models expose that Biorritms are defined in three cycles: one physical, 23 days; An emotional, 28 days, and a 33 -day intellectual cycle. Those days in which the cycle crossed the zero axis, would be considered "critical days", of greater uncertainty or risk.

Similarly, more models have been proposed considering the combination of the first cycles, but in shorter or longer rhythms.

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The belief that there are cycles that govern the destiny of man is ancient and is reflected in what is considered native astrology, as well as the belief of the "days of luck".

However, the idea of ​​the cycles of 23 and 28 days arose at the end of the 19th century with the doctor Wilhelm Fliess, who was Sigmung Freud patient. According to Fliess, he had observed some patterns in phenomena whose intervals were 23 and 28 days, including births and deaths, so, at 23 days he called him "masculine", and at 28 days he called him "female", Due to its coincidence with the menstrual cycle.

Thus, in 1904, the professor of Psychology, Hermann Swoboda, claimed to have discovered the same cycles, independently to that of Fliess. Later, the professor in Engineering, Alfred Turtscher, concluded that the good and bad days of his students followed a 33 -day pattern, which made him deduce that the brain had an ability to absorb knowledge following that cycle.

In the 1970s, this biorhythm practice was popularized through books written by Bernard Gitterlson and their companies obtained many profits with the sales of biorhythm calculators and personalized bioremic letters, although it never came to hit any prediction in sporting events. At that time, many places in the United States had a machine to generate biorerhythmic letters, just by introducing the person's birth date.

Today It is considered that Swoboda's law and biiorrhythmic cycles are pseudoscience, Although there are still those who believe in this type of readings and offer their services.

Through these readings, people believe they can self -knowledge and identify periods of insensitivity, weakness, clumsiness or positive.

These consultations have been very famous in those believers who fear to assume certain activities that are considered dangerous or risky, such as driving, operating heavy machinery or others and, in the academic field, students would take the best days as a reference to make their best efforts and relax in those periods of less intellectual energy.

Biorhythmists also believe that they can build, from their beliefs, a solid field for scientific progress, despite the fact that many critics argue that the belief of biorers is based on the associations of numerology.

Critics of this theory of biorhythms or to Swobod The evidence that their believers argue are usually anecdotal, are not based on mathematics, but on pseudomathematics; Your experiments cannot be replicated And finally, this practice gets close to Divination scams.

Finally, it should be noted that in the business world this theory was welcomed by many companies, which tried to find the periods in which their workers were more productive, considering the cycles.

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Bibliography

• Lanza Tarricone, G., & Ayala Navarrete, J. (1999). Biorhythm on the date of the death of a patient.  Méd. Caracas, 193-6.
• Medina, h., & Jervy, B. Biorritm incidents as a tool for improving human capital performance.