James Randi Speaks: Dowsing, the Ideomotor Effect

James Randi Speaks Video 7
Recorded: 2/18/2009 at the James Randi Educational Foundation
Lighting, Camera and Editing by: Richard Montalvo ([e-mail])
The James Randi Educational Foundation gets many applicants for it's Million Dollar Challenge who claim to be able to dowse. Many say that they can detect things from Water, Gold, Money and the like. What many of them fail to do is to research the ideomotor effect.
We received an application for the Challenge which is a perfect example of how people sometimes just can't understand that the rods are only responding to their movements.
Information on Ideomotor Effect
skepdic.com/ide...
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