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Originally Posted by Geo
Haha. You never tried the dowsing method and say me for "inquisitive mind"
OK, i will tell to all you!!!!
You seem that you don't know anything for dowsing!!!!
You say so simple.... make a double-blind test. And what with this????
Test at who material???? From what material will be the box where must be inside the hidden object??? How many times?????
Look, every dowser is good at one kind, for example water or caves or copper or gold or....... , but not at all together.
My "teacher" is specialist at small copper and silver coins, he has located them from distance 1 and 2 Km far!!!!!.
Also i knew a very old man (he don't live now) that had a very good abillity to detect only gold (and he was very rich). Another known man is very good at water but very bad at everything else.
So, if you will tell to my "teacher" to make a double-blind test at a golden coin he will not hany any success and you will say that Dowsing don't work.
If i understood well at the text that WM6 posted here, there are some occasions where the dowsers had very good results.
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Hi Geo,
I am trying to keep this as a rational discussion, but you saying, "
Haha. You never tried the dowsing method ...", etc., etc., does not help.
If you (for example) think you are only capable of detecting silver coins by dowsing, then perform the test using silver coins. The test doesn't even have to be very rigorous. Simply get a friend to hide a silver coin under 1 of 10 plastic cups and then get him/her to leave the area while you perform the dowsing test. Since the test is only intended for you to confirm or deny to yourself that dowsing is real, it is not necessary to have multiple observers, or to keep the hidden location written down in a sealed envelope. It is not a criticism of anyone if they believe that dowsing works in the field, as the ideomotor effect is very compelling, and the double-blind test helps to remove any unconscious bias by the tester.
If the testing shows that detection of the coin is no more accurate than guessing, then what does that tell you? Perhaps you might conclude that the dowsing effect is somehow compromised by the test procedure, thus causing it to fail. Or you might conclude that dowsing doesn't actually work and is just a trick of the mind.
I know which is the correct answer. Do you?