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