Specifically the study is supposed to look into why Chinese players of the game tend to play it as is while American players tend to try to use mods to play the game. UCI informatics professor Bonnie Nardi, who will head up the study, says, "We are examining the many reasons for this disparity, including cultural and institutional factors," We will leave it to our readers to debate whether a government agency should be spending our money in this matter.
[Via Massively]
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Sure, why not? It could end up being a pretty interesting sociological study. It might reach no particularly deep conclusion, but that's the risk you take when funding scientific research.Posted at 2:40PM on Sep 14th 2008 by Adam