Happily, it seems likely they're being called on the carpet by their university. And hopefully they'll slink away never to be heard from again. (Had you seen the link to one of the guys showing up on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on YouTube?)
The idea is definitely bouncing around that the experiment was really about pissing a group off online, not about what they claimed. Which is also an ethical violation, but apparently more in line with one researcher's prior work.
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Date: 2009-09-02 05:29 pm (UTC)The idea is definitely bouncing around that the experiment was really about pissing a group off online, not about what they claimed. Which is also an ethical violation, but apparently more in line with one researcher's prior work.