EverQuest - Not Just For Geeks?

DJPenguin writes "In this article at the BBC, a respected psychologist has co-authored a study into people who play games online, which breaks some of the stereotype of online gamers." This is similar in the results as the survey data we did of open source developers. The stereotypes and realities are often *very* different.

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Curt Schilling plays

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Major League Baseball star pitcher Curt Schilling and OF Doug Glanville have a highly publicized EverQuest feud... from Jayson Stark's ESPN.com column:

"But just when we thought this scene had quieted down, along came the folks from Sony Online, the corporate father of EverQuest, to fire it back up again. Inspired by Week in Review's coverage, the Sony people invited Schilling and Glanville to battle each other last week in an official Event, with actual witnesses.

So the next thing we knew, Glanville reported to Week in Review he'd just finished "mopping the floor" with Schilling on the computerized battlefield, with an assist from Phillies catcher Todd Pratt, whom he'd invited along.

Sounded simple enough -- until Schilling's version was a slightly different: 'Doug got the beating he deserved.' According to Schilling, Glanville induced him into a battle with Pratt -- and only then 'backstabbed me like the true, leaf-eating wuss he is.'

There was something in there about how Glanville did later beat him one-on-one. But that, Schilling alibied, was due to a 'computer glitch.'"