From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!hocda!spanky!ka
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: dowsing
Article-I.D.: spanky.213
Posted: Fri Feb 18 18:09:29 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 03:50:50 1983
References: vortex.24

I heard The Amazing Randi talk about one "dowser" who claimed to have
a perfect track record and tried to collect Randi's $10,000.  Randi set
up a double-blind test, and about halfway through the test, the dowser
announced that there was no need to continue the test because he had
been successful in all the tries so far.  After the test was completed
and it turned out that he was unsuccessful on every single trial, some-
body asked him what that did to his "perfect track record."  "Nothing,"
he replied, because since his power was obviously not working that day,
his failure didn't count.

I don't think there are any cases of successful dowsing which cannot be
attributed to chance.
				Kenneth Almquist