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I don't think that implies the dosing rods themselves are what works. It may be reasonable to hire somebody who uses dowsing rods, if they have a lot of exper

I don't think that implies the dosing rods themselves are what works. It may be reasonable to hire somebody who uses dowsing rods, if they have a lot of experience and can therefore make educated guesses about where the water is. The dowsing rods are just a prop, maybe a psychological crutch that allows the dowser to listen to their gut. But the point is that somebody using a dowsing rod might be good at finding water even though dowsing rods don't work, and therefore it may be entirely reasonable to hire somebody that [incidentally] uses dowsing rods.

s1artibartfast 4y ago
This was my point. Thanks for expanding it. It may be the case that using rods work, not because they point to water themselves but because they add something else to the process. Maybe they make people pay attention to their surroundings or something like that. Maybe all the people that operate them are part of a trade group that facilitates the transfer of other very valuable knowledge.