New WoW-based personality test!

I read about this in the Economist last week. I wouldn't exactly say that it's a waste of money, and there have been much more worthless researches than this. It doesn't really take millions of dollars to spread a virtual disease and observe it, and you can't do something like that in real life. It seems like a good way of researching behaviour models.

And if you say 'fuck that, everyone already knows what would happen, we don't need any actual data,' the only thing I can do is roll my eyes. Yes, let's just do away with the field of social studies and go by our best guesses.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Klaus

But I did already knew that would happen, especially in a game, where there are little to no consequences. I think it's something any reasonably perceptive person would have noticed.

Well aren't you quite the genius. You knew 'that' would happen? What is 'that,' exactly? I would imagine the full research is a little deeper than 'some people try to infect others, some don't.'

There's nowhere I can't reach.