October 1, 1999

An On-Line 'Quiz Show' Uses the Anonymity of the Internet to Reveal Biases

By SCOTT CARLSON

It sounds like a sweet way to get a Ph.D.: Joshua Berman, a doctoral candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, spends his time in graduate school playing games -- specifically, playing, analyzing, and tinkering with the Turing Game, a World-Wide Web site that he created with his adviser, Amy Bruckman, an assistant professor of computer science.

Mr. Berman is serious about his project, however -- and his Turing Game has lofty goals. For now, it seems

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