Twice in one day; I must be high or something!
August 26th, 2007
Gamers’ world reveals secrets of the next epidemic
I read this and I laughed and laughed. Then I realized what people did in the game is exactly what people would do in real life and that shut me up pretty quickly. Also, it’s a really interesting social experiment; sort of puts the Black Death in perspective.
But the coolest thing about a WoW epidemic is that real epidemiologists used the virtual outbreak to study behaviors, such as the “stupid factor,” they hadn’t considered in creating outbreak models. Of course, my thought to that is mostly: “you don’t consider the stupid factor first?“
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