Divining Rods

[Baranduin]

It seems to me that all anecdotal 'evidence' is of flowing water, but all tests involve stationary water.

At Kassel, north of Frankfurt, Germany, the scientific group Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (GWUP) in 1992 set up a very efficient and effective site for testing dowsing in cooperation with a local television station. A plastic pipe of suitable size was buried fifty centimeters beneath a level section of field, through which a very large flow of water could be directed from a switching valve. The test area was protected by a large tent, and the position of the buried pipe was prominently marked by a broad red and white stripe. The challenge for the dowsers was not to find the pipe, but only to say whether water was flowing in it or not.

http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/dowsing.html

:lol:

 

[curiousmind]

Ah, yes, fair enough.

You seem to have left out the important part though:

At the end of three days of testing, GWUP announced the results of almost a thousand bits of data to the assembled dowsers. A summary of their results produced just what would be expected according to chance.

Cheers though.

 

[Tylzen]

It looks fishy.

The only thing I could think of that would make it plausible was if it created some sort of magnetic field that their equipment picked up.
But since they use wooden stuff I can't see why it should work, and it does not seem so.