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VR Study Says 40% of Us Are Paranoid
Roland Piquepaille writes "UK researchers have recently used virtual reality to check if people had paranoid thoughts when using public transportation. Their VR tube ride experiment revealed that 40% of the participants experienced exaggerated fears about threats from others. Until now, researchers were relying on somewhat unreliable questionnaires to study paranoid thoughts which are often triggered by ambiguous events such as someone laughing behind their back. With the use of VR, psychiatrists and psychologists have a new tool which can reliably recreate social interactions. As the lead researcher said, VR 'is a uniquely powerful method to detect those liable to misinterpret other people.'."
I'm sure these statistics are going to be used against us by the government to push some new laws to will limit our freedom.
* looks shiftily around the room *
not me
* more shiftiness *
its you. you that are paranoid. Your all paranoid
* mummbling to himself and biting a fingernail *
no not me. im normal.
It's kind of silly to report things like this. How'd that study go?
Pollster: Mind if I ask you some questions?
Person: Sure.
Pollster: Do you like sausage?
Person: Yeah, it's good.
Pollster: Patty or link?
Person: Patty please, something bothers me when it's in the casing of-
Pollster: Are you afraid I'm going to kill you?
Person: I... what? Are you?
Pollster: Thank you for your time.
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Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you - Kurt Cobain
Actually I'm always paranoid when I am wearing a 5 kg headset that simulates me riding on the subway--unarmed that is. If I have a BFG then it is a different thing altogether. The worst thing about these subway sims is that it is so damn hard to safely fire a rocket--not that they have the decency to put spare ammo or guns in the sim. And even in the very rare sims where you are able to bring your weapons into the subway car it will never move because some damn aliens attacked your research facility. Bastards!
"Paranoia" is only a healthy adjustment to the modern world, which IS out to get you. If it's not the terrorists and pedophiles it's the corporations or the government.
REALLY have the world against them.
1- Sell tin foil hats at subway stations
2- ?????
3- 40% Profit!
home
40% of us are paranoid, but the other 60% *know* Roland does need to be taken out back and shot.
Yes, but if you lived in Britain 200 years ago, and you're reading this, you're also crazy.
The most paranoid I've ever been was on my first train ride in Japan and there was a lovely young lady. 20ish, who got on a few stations before Tokyo and stood by the doors and who had on a most amazing dress that wasn't held up and on by anything that I could detect. I was so afraid it was going to fall down and damage my prudish USian eyes
All you've proved is that birds are paranoid and tigers are terrorists.
Your government grant is in the mail.
I'll choose the halfway option: it's paranormal.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
But in a an actual ride on the tube, you would be thinking about something else
Perhaps velociraptors? In that case at least there are some solutions.
Bitter and proud of it.
"if I take one step towards a bird without even looking at it or intending to eat it..."
You're a cat, aren't you? Come on, 'fess up.
Hey everybody, there's a cat posting on Slashdot! I thought only dogs were able to post anonymously on the Internet.
(And another proof you are a cat: you misspelled "paranoia". It is well known that cats can't spell. I've seen Lolcats. I'm not fooled.)
I am anarch of all I survey.
...or have a time machine,
- The Doctor
I have to go. They're listening
That's funny. I was thinking if xkcd came up here, it would be referencing this one.
I know what you mean about nature out to get you.
Whenever we go hiking, I'm always the only one the mosquitoes target for a blood meal. Also, since it's the females that bite, that just reinforces my paranoia that all female are out to get me.
I'm also still paranoid about my inevitable alien abduction and anal probing (Ouch! Maybe they work for the IRS...)