While all good points (and the tag is “For Science!”) they aren’t really doing science. Take the first case, the belief that rapidly clicking Kadala will affect what you get. Is it true or not? You don’t know until you test it. It is not true in the idealized world where Kadala has a perfect RNG. But it may or may not be true in the real world where a click triggers a message to the server and, depending on the latency, rapid clicks could tickle some bug involving a race condition or out-of-order messages or something like that.
It’s not like Diablo is known to be entirely bug-free :-/ You don’t get to say “actually” unless you actually tested it.
And they never claim to be doing science (other than that “For Science” tag, but who would take that seriously on an entertainment website?). They are introducing the idea that our minds have flaws and are full of bias to their audience through highly relatable example material.
I don’t know if the Kadala bug is real, and I don’t care, that is a tree in the forest. And the article is about the forest. (If the Kadala bug is real, that is just poor fact checking. The lesson on Confirmation Bias still stands.)
14 Ways Cognitive Biases Hamper Your Diablo Toon
It is actually titled “How Your Mind Screws with You in Games Like Diablo”. Not novel material, but novel to see on a gaming website.
While all good points (and the tag is “For Science!”) they aren’t really doing science. Take the first case, the belief that rapidly clicking Kadala will affect what you get. Is it true or not? You don’t know until you test it. It is not true in the idealized world where Kadala has a perfect RNG. But it may or may not be true in the real world where a click triggers a message to the server and, depending on the latency, rapid clicks could tickle some bug involving a race condition or out-of-order messages or something like that.
It’s not like Diablo is known to be entirely bug-free :-/ You don’t get to say “actually” unless you actually tested it.
And they never claim to be doing science (other than that “For Science” tag, but who would take that seriously on an entertainment website?). They are introducing the idea that our minds have flaws and are full of bias to their audience through highly relatable example material.
I don’t know if the Kadala bug is real, and I don’t care, that is a tree in the forest. And the article is about the forest. (If the Kadala bug is real, that is just poor fact checking. The lesson on Confirmation Bias still stands.)