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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqles)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: A fraud....?
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Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 14:48:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 19 14:48:42 1984
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> 	And, I can't believe that you're dumb enough to assert that
> this is the kind of thing that a psychology student would do to 
> study this sort of response.  The net is probably the worst place
> to study such responses, and a psych student wouldn't go that far.
> (I know; I'm a psychology student here at Purdue).

I have to agree, I don't think a psych student would try to use the net for
something like this, if only because it would be almost impossible to put
enough controls on the experiment to make any statistically significant
comments about it. Think about it-- There could be another psych student
out there deliberately sending back bogus feedback to measure your response
at the same time you are measuring his response to your bogus feedback.
Back in the crazier days of my youth (on another network-- I'd never try
to pull this one off on THIS net, of course....) I used to enjoy locating
'spare' accounts and creating persons for them. It was a great game for
everyone to try to figure out who chuqui was being. The most successful
person I created lasted over a month before I clued in the appropriate
people. She was female and a frosh psych student and I had half a dozen of
the males on the net rather perturbed (and in two cases extremely
embarassed) to find out how thoroughly they'd been snowed. It can be done,
but it is a lot of work, and unless I was attempting to play a practical
joke on someone I doubt that it would be worth the effort...

chuq
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