Janic wrote:
This emphasizes, once again that you are talking about a subject that you completely ignore because you only retain an average success rate rather than a high success rate.
It's an example. With 3 hands and 2 stones, if the success rate does not significantly exceed 66,66% it comes to the same thing: In these experiments, if the success rate does not exceed chance, the gift is not proven.
This is what happens for conventional medicine and cancer, their failure rate and their success rate is no accident!
If a dowser or a magnetizer can feel his action and / or assert that he has a gift, it is easy to set up a methodical and controlled experiment to prove it by eliminating all bias of interpretation (chance, trickery, etc. ...)
Obviously! but according to the criteria of the profession, as for H., not by handymen who know nothing about it and want to be taken for what they are not. Hence my recommendation: contact the representative organizations which will direct you towards one or more competent dowsers which you can check on parts their "claims". Unless you're scared to see your "certainties" as a conditioned skeptic questioned.
Janic wrote:Yet it is an easily verifiable and measurable phenomenon.
Indeed, as many as possible, in real life, by competent people.
The experiments carried out in sourcery are simple to implement and to reproduce: No dowser tested until then could demonstrate any gift.
Still big nonsense, as usual! If it were so simple, anyone could do it, which is not the case in real life as there are so many variations between each dowser. In dowsing there are a large number of sectors where some succeed better than in others, even are "incompetent" in these. It's like in medicine, there is general training, then specialties where each doctor is more successful than in others as between surgeon and proctologist. (already cited)
Janic wrote:Would the popularity of a practice be scientific proof?
It's really obsessive! You have been told over and over again that the general public disregards evidence (supposedly scientific) even though the scientists in question have failed to resolve their health problem.
It is not because science does not have an answer that everything else has it.
Exactly! A claim, not confirmed by experimentation, has no value!
If for centuries most wells have been successfully sourced, this is the expected proof by users who paid with their sweat to dig these wells.
The same goes for unconventional medicines which have proven themselves over centuries (with a few failures as with all things) and which popular wisdom was able to recognize without waiting for "scientists" (not science) to confirm it and that Science has finally done it.
