--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: <snip> > > I don't know much about dowsing but isn't that the way people used to locate > water underground? Did it work? >
Of course it worked. Walk around with a forked stick, feel like a place is a good place to dig, and dig a hole. If there is water, great, if there is some mineral found, then that was what "drew" the dowser to the place. If nothing is found there is an explanation for that including by not limited to the skepticism of the person watching the dowser or the position of the moon. Repeat until you find water in one of your holes which is also pretty likely depending on the depth of the water table in that area. Once you have enough cases of success and have dropped out the missed tries, you have the anecdotal basis for the claim: "I can find water with a forked stick." People naturally suck at statistics and probability thoery.
