Nass and Moon discovered that: "...Individuals mindlessly apply social rules and expectations to computers. (...) individuals overuse human social categories, applying gender stereotypes to computers and ethnically identifying with computer agents.(...) people exhibit overlearned social behaviors such as politeness and reciprocity toward computers".
See: "Machines and Mindlessness: Social Responses to Computers", Journal of Social Issues,
Volume 56 Issue
Much of the debate is centred around Michael Mann's hockey stick hypothesis. It suggests that the earth's temperature indeed was significantly higher during the last century than in the last one thousand years. Hence the hockey stick image.
UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognises this image as conventional wisdom.
However, there is scientific evidence that Mann's estimates could be wrong: See Breaking the Hockey Stick, suggesting that global warming may be a natural phenomena.
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Nass and Moon discovered that: "...Individuals mindlessly apply social rules and expectations to computers. (...) individuals overuse human social categories, applying gender stereotypes to computers and ethnically identifying with computer agents.(...) people exhibit overlearned social behaviors such as politeness and reciprocity toward computers".
See: "Machines and Mindlessness: Social Responses to Computers", Journal of Social Issues, Volume 56 Issue
Much of the debate is centred around Michael Mann's hockey stick hypothesis. It suggests that the earth's temperature indeed was significantly higher during the last century than in the last one thousand years. Hence the hockey stick image.
UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognises this image as conventional wisdom.
However, there is scientific evidence that Mann's estimates could be wrong: See Breaking the Hockey Stick, suggesting that global warming may be a natural phenomena.
Well, it seems they anticipated that. The first hit when searching for "slashdot" is a link to "MirrorDot", the site that automatically mirrors any linked pages in the Slashdot story.