Posted by IsoM on September 17, 2002, at 20:35:33
...what these boards are about.
It was from reading Alii's message & seeing "...of any of us as your test subjects."
That's it - test subjects!We all know that the comments used in these forums are partly for research. To properly conduct research & have results that can be used as bonafide data, there first must be a hypothesis. I'm not sure what the exact wording of it would be, but something along the lines of:
Testing how people with different disorders interact with three different scenarios -
1. relaxed, low-key rules
2. strict, harsher rules & blockings
3. purposely vague & inconsistent rules & blocks based on no conceivable known rules.By noting how test subjects react under 3 different control environments, researcher(s) can perhaps extrapolate how society & its normal conventions break down over time.
Changing the environment that we post in, our reactions are being noted & will probably make it into some scientific papers somewhere.
I just know I don't particularly like being a lab rat.
Wonder if someone got their inspiration from "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH".
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689710682/qid=1032312720/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-9540461-1183211
(NIMH for those who don't know stands for National Institute of Mental Health.)
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