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Some more thoughts from a longer consideration of the results.
Note that only squares B4 and A3 got 6 and 5 dowses respectively and although 'wrong', these are adjacent to the correct square.
However looking at both maps there seems to be a bias in the dowsing results towards the right hand side of the maps which is not present with the guessed results. This is even though Target Y is well to the left.
I have analysed this on my spreadsheet and the results are as follows:
Target X, dowsing results on LHS of map 35.7%, on RHS of map 64.3%
Target Y, dowsing results on LHS of map 40.4%, on RHS of map 59.5%
These are at round about the 95% confidence level so appears (I think) to be a 'statistically significant' bias in the dowsing results towards the right hand side of the map.
This could be a psychological effect of the need to 'find' something before you 'run out of map' as it were (assuming people were working from left to right). Equally perhaps people's eyes were drawn to something on the map, although this is present on both maps and we were quite careful to avoid making the correct maps square distinctive in any way.
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