MMOG players roleplay labrats for economists
by Vladimir Cole 
{ Aug 2nd 2005 at 8:30AM }
Some economists are planning to dabble a bit in the world of Massively Multiplayer Online Games
because those worlds afford them a chance to observe players in a controlled environment, according to the San
Francisco Chronicle.
In a sense, the bearded academics get to play Greenspan/God as they change one variable or another to see how their human subjects react.
The Chronical quotes one economist as saying, "This is a social science petri dish…. You can see everything, and they don't know you're watching."
Mmm, kinky.
[Via Blue's News]
