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>>For instance, I think we would find that the rate of young men playing video games and watching porn are much higher than for young women. I'm not saying that

>>For instance, I think we would find that the rate of young men playing video games and watching porn are much higher than for young women. I'm not saying that young women don't do these things, but I don't believe these things are engaged in at the same rates as young men. I don't know about porn, but data strongly disagrees with this when it comes to gaming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Demographics_of_female_players https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Demograp...

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gnicholas 8y ago
This source indicates that nearly 50% of people who play video games are women, but it does not indicate anything about the time spent gaming. It is quite possible that men are a bare majority of gamers but play a super-majority of the hours spent gaming.
- enraged_camel 8y ago
  That could be the case, but unless you have actual data supporting it, it's just speculation. My point is: the perception that most gamers are men, who on average spend more of their time gaming than women, lacks supporting data. It is easily explained by psychological factors such as confirmation bias and stereotyping.
  - gnicholas 8y ago
    Men spend 25% more time gaming than women: https://www.limelight.com/resources/white-paper/state-of-online-gaming-2019/#spend https://www.limelight.com/resources/white-paper/state-of-onl... I think your comment on perceptions of gamers misses the point that "gamers" are people who spend lots of time playing video games. The research on the wikipedia page isn't about "gamers". It's about people who play video games at some level of frequency, which is a much broader category. This is why our intuitions about "gamers" turn out to be accurate, even though they are not consistent with the data about the much larger category of "people who play video games".

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gnicholas 8y ago

This source indicates that nearly 50% of people who play video games are women, but it does not indicate anything about the time spent gaming. It is quite possible that men are a bare majority of gamers but play a super-majority of the hours spent gaming.

enraged_camel 8y ago
That could be the case, but unless you have actual data supporting it, it's just speculation. My point is: the perception that most gamers are men, who on average spend more of their time gaming than women, lacks supporting data. It is easily explained by psychological factors such as confirmation bias and stereotyping.
- gnicholas 8y ago
  Men spend 25% more time gaming than women: https://www.limelight.com/resources/white-paper/state-of-online-gaming-2019/#spend https://www.limelight.com/resources/white-paper/state-of-onl... I think your comment on perceptions of gamers misses the point that "gamers" are people who spend lots of time playing video games. The research on the wikipedia page isn't about "gamers". It's about people who play video games at some level of frequency, which is a much broader category. This is why our intuitions about "gamers" turn out to be accurate, even though they are not consistent with the data about the much larger category of "people who play video games".