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Researchers Find Racial Bias In Virtual Worlds
schliz writes "Real-world behaviours and racial biases could carry forward into virtual worlds such as Second Life, social psychologists say. According to a study that was conducted in There.com, virtual world avatars respond to social cues in the same ways that people do in the real world. Users, who were unaware that they were part of a psychological study, were approached by a researcher's avatar for either a 'foot-in-the-door' (FITD) or 'door-in-the-face' (DITF) experiment. While results of the FITD experiment revealed no racial bias, the effect of the DITF technique was significantly reduced when the experimenter took the form of a dark-skinned avatar."
You're just saying that because I'm blue...
He just needed more /b/lackup in order to finish the experiment :)
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Isn't that caused by the fact that those virtual world avatars are controlled by people in the real world?
I have both light-skinned and dark-skinned characters in Guild Wars. I'd say I regularly get called a noob regardless of skin color. )=
In short:
1. will you give me $10000? -> no!
2. then will you give me $1000? -> arrr... yes..
3. ????
4. profit!!!
please rephrase with cars. No one here understands this "jogging" or "football" you speak of.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Instead of the Foot-In-The-Door experiment or Door-In-The-Face experiment, you have the Gank-the-N00b experiment and the Give-Gold-And-Items-to-Hot-Female-Night-Elves-Who-Are-Really-Men experiments.
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And since when is total isolation natural?
So typed the AC in his parents basement before clicking submit.
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Gonzales: "How does he feel about Mexicans?"
De Georgio: "Ask him."
Harry: "Especially Spics."
It means you were badly coded in Java.
Yes, but it also means that your genitals work on all platforms.
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Seeing what it brought Michael Jackson, I think I'll pass.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
If I was drawing a line in the sand then "dressing up like an animal and fucking other animals" would be so far on the gassing side you might as well just climb in the oven now.
Even pedos seem to be rehabilitatable, compared to the rabid defense of the "furry fandom" when we want to gas you bastards - and also whole "its about fucking animals, its about unleasing my inner dragon (all over that badgers face)" bullshit.
The most freaky shit I've ever done was three girls at once. (One of them was fat, so it hardly counts). Most of male society would agree that it was fucking awesome, and it was. I'm definitely on the side of the line-drawers, and not side of the furrys burning in their semen and gas soaked fursuits.
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I don't think there were as many people enslaved or killed over the color of their hair as there were the color of their skin.
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Years ago, I attended a community Labor Day parade. I wore a bright orange T-shirt with the word "STAFF" across the back. Worked wonders for gaining access to areas off-limits to ordinary "unwashed masses" folks. Social engineering can be entertaining.
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When the experimenters tried the same protocol with furry avatars rather than darker-skinned avatars, before they could even initiate communications, the respondants invariably shot them in the spine with a rail gun and screamed "Yiff in Hell, furfag!'