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I wasn't referring to casual games either.

I'm sure my friend Melanie has more hours in the disgaea series than you do in your little shooter games.

My wife's sister makes a pretty penny buying and selling items in some MMO. She doesn't interact with the community on voice chat though, for reasons you make very clear in this interaction.

Your conceptions of gendered behaviour are built upon your personal definitions of gender. It's silly to assume otherwise.



>my friend Melanie

>My wife's sister

n=2.

>A total of 395 junior high school students were recruited for evaluation of their experiences playing online games.

>[...]

>This study found that subjects who had previously played online games were predominantly male. Gender differences were also found in the severity of online gaming addiction and motives for playing.[0]

From another study:

>A total of 25,573 students (49.8 % boys and 50.2 % girls) across junior and senior high schools participated in the study.

[...]

>Table 2 lists students’ most frequent online activities. The percentage of frequent online gamers was higher for boys than girls at both school levels, z=13.63, p<0.001 for junior high; z=13.72, p<0.001 for senior high.[1]

[0]https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2005/04000/Gender_Di...

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079945/


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Says a lot that @Vt71fcAqt7 is describing a chosen segment with population analyses, while you're giving as bad-faith a response as I've seen on HN.


Population analyses don’t show that women don’t play video games.


They do show that for the subset he was talking about. Competitive online games are extremely male dominated.

Similarly, the puzzle-solving spot the difference type of games are exceedingly female dominated.


But he didn’t say that “competitive online games are a male thing” he said “extensive gaming is a male thing” which just isn’t true.




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