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nigelswift May 26, 2012 07:46:02
Replying to BuckyE

Not "perfectly good proof" since a sceptic might still claim it was just luck. It would need to be demonstrated repeatedly elsewhere.

And that's the problem with dowsing, so few convincing successful sequences of tests*, so many less-than-fully-structured demonstrations.

*None?

G goffik
goffik May 26, 2012 09:02:18
Replying to nigelswift

I read somewhere that, statistically, 99% of people will predict a burial when asked to guess information about a location. ;)

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B BuckyE
BuckyE May 26, 2012 18:23:07
Replying to nigelswift

Yes, sorry, you're right. I should have said, "The KIND OF perfectly good proof that would prove dowsing to be real."

And you're right, according to everything I read online, dowsers under at least semi-controlled conditions seem to mostly do no better than chance. ::shrugging::