• psud@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Good dowsers have pretty well developed skills at spotting signs of underground water, and a good understanding of where civil engineers put pipes

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      5 months ago

      Lol, that’s actually what I’ve read. In cases was someone was enough an “old timer” it’s likley they’d been to the site before, or had worked enough or had enough intuition. In those cases the chi squared was decent with the rods compared without.

      … In a new site built specifically for testing, not so much.

      So that’s interesting from a psychology perspective, something giving someone “permission” to focus, but water divining it was not.

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        5 months ago

        Yep. Good dowsers do terribly at tests where water pipes and empty pipes have been run through a test area at random.