A gravimeter is not a stick.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/instruments/gra...
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/instruments/gra...
No question dowsing is pseudoscience. But it's interesting that the dowsing concept of hanging weights off a stick is quite similar to the first scientific gravimeter, which used a pendulum in the 1670s.
Also Clarke's first and second laws in action: "LaCoste's most famous invention is the ship, and aircraft-mounted gravimeter. …this invention was considered impossible until LaCoste demonstrated it." Clarke's third law is asking the black brick in your hand "Siri, what's the local gravity here?"