http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6951918.stm

- Not sure you can ever use online behaviour as a model for reality, but interesting nonetheless.

Why not? It's been generally found that people behave online exactly as they would in meatspace when you alter the risk profile of an activity by removing accountability or culpability, or raising/lowering consequences.

This is fairly old news though, the initial "hey, we can look at this as a model" observations were made when Corrupted Blood happened back in what, 2005?

She said a major constraint for epidemiologists studying disease dynamics at the moment was that they were limited to observational and retrospective studies. For example, it would be unethical to release an infectious disease in real life in order to study what the consequences might be.Unethical? Oh my.

Hahaha! :P

Well, at least she didn't say it was "too costly" to release an infectious disease in real life.
Litigation is a pain, eh?

Why not? It's been generally found that people behave online exactly as they would in meatspace when you alter the risk profile of an activity by removing accountability or culpability, or raising/lowering consequences.


Explains why politicians do what they do now. lol