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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 356163" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>Yep.</p><p></p><p>Though <em>why</em> it at least <em>appears</em> to often work in the field is the question that interests me. How anyone with a bent bit of wire can not only find underground water but do so consistently much more often than what you would expect chance to dictate is a bit of a puzzle.</p><p></p><p>Despite it's high field success rate, it has so little credibility among scientific researchers that it doesn't seem any (that I'm aware of) have bothered to actually put these people to the test where it really matters, out in the field. To be fair, as mentioned previously it would be an very expensive exercise and who is going to give a research grant to test such an old superstition, especially when they can't perform in controlled environment testing?</p><p></p><p>I'm still skeptical and leaning towards it being easily found because it's under the ground all over the place anyway. But until solid testing proves beyond doubt that this is the reason for their high rate of field success, I remain curious as to what might actually be happening. It took us a long time to understand things like magnetism and electricity just because we didn't have the technology to see and examine them with at the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 356163, member: 2976"] Yep. Though [i]why[/i] it at least [i]appears[/i] to often work in the field is the question that interests me. How anyone with a bent bit of wire can not only find underground water but do so consistently much more often than what you would expect chance to dictate is a bit of a puzzle. Despite it's high field success rate, it has so little credibility among scientific researchers that it doesn't seem any (that I'm aware of) have bothered to actually put these people to the test where it really matters, out in the field. To be fair, as mentioned previously it would be an very expensive exercise and who is going to give a research grant to test such an old superstition, especially when they can't perform in controlled environment testing? I'm still skeptical and leaning towards it being easily found because it's under the ground all over the place anyway. But until solid testing proves beyond doubt that this is the reason for their high rate of field success, I remain curious as to what might actually be happening. It took us a long time to understand things like magnetism and electricity just because we didn't have the technology to see and examine them with at the time. [/QUOTE]
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