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Title: Fuckwit States Obvious Things Post by: LK on May 17, 2010, 04:11:47 PM http://kotaku.com/5541043/lessons-of-the-mario-kart-cheaters
Quote Madigan had a theory, borne out by some data, that people are more likely to cheat when they are anonymous and that they'll cheat less the more they are connected to other gamers — the more, in other words, that they are known. NO SHIT? :uhrr: Title: Re: Fuckwit States Obvious Things Post by: NowhereMan on May 17, 2010, 06:40:50 PM You mean increasing the consequences of cheating without a relative increase in the rewards (or even a potential decrease) affects a change in the number of cheaters? Wow. :ye_gods:
Title: Re: Fuckwit States Obvious Things Post by: bhodi on May 17, 2010, 08:14:35 PM This really deserved it's own thread? At least it's in the right forum.
This seems awfully corollary to (http://www.filedump.net/dumped/2154994888pszrl21274152429.jpg) Title: Re: Fuckwit States Obvious Things Post by: pxib on May 17, 2010, 09:33:58 PM A lot of these idiotic studies get done because even though "everybody knows" what they aim to prove, nobody had done a study about it... so there's nothing to reference in academic papers when you state the obvious, and you don't get published. So one person risks ridicule by doing an idiotic study, and a hundred academics sigh in relief that they didn't have to bite that particular bullet and can now publish their serious papers using that particular piece of "common knowledge" as a launchpad.
Title: Re: Fuckwit States Obvious Things Post by: MahrinSkel on May 17, 2010, 10:01:04 PM It also looks like it was his PhD thesis, which makes it more original and less stupid than most.
--Dave Title: Re: Fuckwit States Obvious Things Post by: K9 on May 18, 2010, 03:56:24 AM I didn't even realise it was possible to cheat in MarioKart Wii. More to the point, why bother?
Title: Re: Fuckwit States Obvious Things Post by: Ironwood on May 18, 2010, 05:22:43 AM To win.
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