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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:18:22 +0100

I'd have to look up an exact reference but there is a psychological experiment that verifies this as well (it's mentioned in an old psych book I have -- I picked it up from a secondhand shop for some bizarre reason that I don't remember now; I never took a course in the stuff).

The experiment consisted of doing simple tasks and administering mild electric shocks to actors (who were supposed to act as though they were getting zapped by a far more electrifying jolt) whenever the tasks were done incorrectly. The subjects of course were administering the shocks, and were divided into two groups; in one group they were more or less dressed normally, but in the other they were hooded or cloaked.

Guess which one administered longer shocks? :-)

In Usenet, we're all more or less cloaked; the only thing one sees is the verbiage. I prefer to wear blunt but non-insulting verbiage, and prefer humor to anger.

Others, of course, have their own ideas.

Possible and probably done on a routine basis. In person I tend to be more excitable, at least at work.

If it gets bad enough they can get banished I suppose. The main problem is that they can simply sign up and try again. It's a dual problem, in its way; one is cloaked, but one is also able to polymorph -- and that's *without* doing something illegitimate.

That's probably not the one I'm referring to above, but it does sound like more confirmation that we're wired a little weirdly -- or perhaps there's a reason for this wiring that we've yet to discover in the evolutionary scale of things.

I can't say.

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