You mean like the (in)famous orange experiment? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467895 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467895 and the top thread in it (

You mean like the (in)famous orange experiment? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467895 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467895 and the top thread in it (the one started by jacquesm) makes for a good summary as to why it failed.