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a result of chance. A similar result was obtained by the University of Nice
zetetics lab, which, using an experimental site with a network of pipes and
sluice gates, was able to prove that the diviners willing to participate in the
experiment did not have the ability to detect water circulations (Charpak
& Broch, 2002). Additionally, the authors would like to highlight that the
quantitative aspect of divining studies does not take into account units of
measurement. However, although the procedures are identical in France
and in England, the French use the metric system while the British count in
feet. The largest study was done in Germany on 500 diviners, among which
43 individuals appearing to possess unusual capacities were the subjects
of a further study seeming to reveal some sort of power (Köning & Betz,
1989). However, further analysis of the raw data a posteriori did not confi rm
this conclusion (Enright, 1995).
Diviners' powers therefore seem to originate more from empiricism,
from the unconscious integration of visual stimuli , or from a solid analysis
of the natural environment, than from any extrasensory perception.