Team+America,+Disaster+Capitalists

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Team America: Disaster Capitalists is composed of 4 students:

Christian Fall Smiley Clawtooth Louie Pausch American Blackburn

The group met Thursday, January 30th, and did three things. First, we decided on the name Team America: Disaster Capitalists. Second, we took this picture: Third, we decided that we are awesome. More to come later.

Research Project:
Our research project will be entitled **Exploring Copyright in Second Life: Social Norms** In it, we will explore how social norms are used as modalities of constraint to enforce Second Life's copyright rules and laws. We have developed a survey which we will ask ~100 random SL users, and use rudimentary statistical analysis on the data to discover which Independent Variables determine how social norms are used as modalities of constraint.

When we approach people, we will need to tell them that we are not part of any Second Life police force and that we are researchers. This will hopefully allay any sense of entrapment that avatars may feel.
 * Disclaimer Message:**


 * Survey:**
 * 1) What is your RL age?
 * 2) What is your RL gender?
 * 3) How long have you been using Second Life?
 * 4) Are you from the United States?
 * 5) Are you a student?
 * 6) Do you use P2P software (such as Limewire, etc)
 * 7) Have you ever copied a non-copy object in Second Life?
 * 8) If you had the technology, would you copy a non-copy object in Second Life?
 * 9) If you knew someone was copying objects in Second Life that were designated non-copy, would you report that activity?

Christian Fall's Data Smiley Clawtooth's Data American Blackburn's Data Louie Pausch's Data

Interviews took place all semester and were totally completed on April 11th. Data compilation took place on April 12th.

Survey questions 1-6 were taken as Independent Variables, and questions 7-9 were taken as Dependent Variables. Therefore, since there were three Dependent Variables, there were three final equations. They are as follows:

Standard Errors for HAVE_COPIED: SE=0.123656181458309
 * Intercept || 0.053364626 ||
 * AGE || 0.001287738 ||
 * GENDER || 0.022381837 ||
 * TIME ON SL || 0.001408852 ||
 * US || 0.023440648 ||
 * STUDENT || 0.027242587 ||
 * P2P || 0.02322284 ||

Standard Errors for WOULD_COPY: SE=0.400902735909013 Standard Errors for WOULD_REPORT: SE=0.496681516132054
 * Intercept || 0.173012173 ||
 * AGE || 0.004174945 ||
 * GENDER || 0.072563618 ||
 * TIME ON SL || 0.004567604 ||
 * US || 0.07599636 ||
 * STUDENT || 0.088322539 ||
 * P2P || 0.075290211 ||
 * US || 0.094152482 ||
 * STUDENT || 0.10942348 ||
 * P2P || 0.093277628 ||

If you would like to view the full .xls spreadsheet, it has been uploaded. It is available

Finally, we would like to present our research project. Hooray!