How Soccer Video Games Can Change (Save?) the World
This will make my son happy. A new study says that a virtual soccer management game yields real-life lessons in human behavior, according to newswise.com. A study using a soccer management game to explore more than a half-million participants' monetary choices confirmed it's possible to use a virtual world to mimic real-world behavior on a grand scale, the web site reports. The results open the door to the predictive use of game worlds in policymaking, commercial and other real-life applications, newswise.com quotes co-author Edward Castronova , a professor in The Media School at Indiana University. The study confirmed the viability of conducting controlled research using "big data" on a scale many times larger than the typical social science experiment. "Our work shows that huge social experiments with game worlds and their thousands of players are not only feasible but also relevant for real-world society," Castronova reports. "We could...