Re: An experiment about the success rate of "dowsing"

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Dowsing/Muscle testing is really just a way to check what you actually believe and affirm it. Your own personal belief meter that shows you obviously/overtly/physically what you might only think about subtly/shallowly or the back of your mind.
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This is not my understanding of the subject, i think dowsing/muscle testing may be coherent when i see it as a way to communicate either with the automatic part of the body (you know all these cells that work to reconstruct your body) or a way to communicate with the spirit/soul that animates a body.
The existence of a spirit/soul that possibly animates the human body has not been disproven yet, so maybe.

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How "reliable" or "where" that belief comes from is not scientifically provable or unprovable
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Not true. You either have good success rates in your answers or you don't, this can be tested, and from what i have seen the results were not good for dowsing/muscle testing.
However the conditions of the experiments were not the same as when a dowser/muscle tester normally works so i am still open minded about this.

This man seems to have interesting techniques about it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X1IA7mP3yI

But i can't see if it is a voluntary movement that makes move the wire or the wire that makes move the hand or an involuntary movement that makes move the wire.

I think that if dowsing/muscle testing works, it should be an involuntary movement (an automatic movement produced by the cells or by the spirit/soul)