Researchers Find Racial Bias In Virtual Worlds 592
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."
RACIST! (Score:5, Funny)
You're just saying that because I'm blue...
Dark skinned avatar in a virtual world ? (Score:4, Funny)
He just needed more /b/lackup in order to finish the experiment :)
no shit sherlock? (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that caused by the fact that those virtual world avatars are controlled by people in the real world?
Other virtual worlds give different results (Score:5, Funny)
Re:FITD vs DITF (Score:1, Funny)
In short:
1. will you give me $10000? -> no!
2. then will you give me $1000? -> arrr... yes..
3. ????
4. profit!!!
Re:Not necessarily racism (Score:3, Funny)
In WOW... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:FITD vs DITF (Score:3, Funny)
Re:RACIST! (Score:5, Funny)
Driving the Indy car around was the give-away you're a racist.
Re:FITD vs DITF (Score:4, Funny)
And since when is total isolation natural?
So typed the AC in his parents basement before clicking submit.
Why do they call you "Dirty Harry"? (Score:4, Funny)
De Georgio: "Ah that's one thing about our Harry, doesn't play any favorites! Harry hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks, you name it."
Gonzales: "How does he feel about Mexicans?"
De Georgio: "Ask him."
Harry: "Especially Spics."
Re:RACIST! (Score:5, Funny)
You're just saying that because I'm blue...
You think that's bad... The jerk down the street who is half black, half white thinks he's all that. Here is a picture of him (on the left, me on the right) [technabob.com]. Look at that smug expression. What a prick. Just like the rest of his kind.
Everyone knows that my people, those of us who are half white, half black are the superior ones!
Re:RACIST! (Score:5, Funny)
"You know when it comes to racism, people say: " I don't care if they're black, white, purple or green"... Ooh hold on now: Purple or Green? You gotta draw the line somewhere! To hell with purple people! - Unless they're suffocating - then help'em." - Mitch Hedberg
Re:Other virtual worlds give different results (Score:3, Funny)
If that's an experiment, I guess the only constant is you... ;)
Re:FITD vs DITF (Score:2, Funny)
It means you were badly coded in Java.
Yes, but it also means that your genitals work on all platforms.
Re:FITD vs DITF (Score:3, Funny)
Seeing what it brought Michael Jackson, I think I'll pass.
Re:RACIST! (Score:5, Funny)
Me stereo beat you stereo anytime! Me have latest JVC with latest amp, 800 Watts max. beat you puny GE hands down! I rig up my EQ lights to supa dupa neon and blinkers, see? 6" woofers in my tailpipes, add 10 horsepower easy! Wanna race? Honda Type R rulezzz!
s/r/l/g
Re:RACIST! (Score:3, Funny)
Shit, now I get it. Race car driver, Racists.
Re:People hate freaks. (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:FITD vs DITF (Score:3, Funny)
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.
He's a Hairist! Shun! Shuuuuuun!
Re:tribalism (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Entertaining, yes... so I figure you"ll appreciate this. http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/ [improveverywhere.com]
Re:RACIST! (Score:3, Funny)
They're discriminated against by nature. More specifically, they had better watch out for the one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater....
Re:RACIST! (Score:2, Funny)
You know, as a kid I always thought of it as a monster with one eye, one horn, flew, and ate purple people.
Re:Okay, but what about... (Score:1, Funny)
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!'