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I wasn't refering to casual games. I've played thousands of hours of cs and almost all the girls I've seen were with thier boyfriends and were always bottom fra

I wasn't refering to casual games. I've played thousands of hours of cs and almost all the girls I've seen were with thier boyfriends and were always bottom frag with few hours on their account. The competitve nature of cs makes it a male dominated game. I see women playing candy crush/ animal crossing all the time but these games are not competitive. >what makes programming a man thing? Characteristic Share of respondents Man 91.88% Woman 5.17% Non-binary, genderqueer, or gender non-conforming 1.67% Prefer not to say 1.65% Or, in your own words 0.74% [0] There are almost as many trans male programmers as female programmers. It is also linked with autism which is mostly a male condition. (Which is true for video games as well.) [0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/1126823/worldwide-developer-gender/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1126823/worldwide-develo...

skyyler 3y ago
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.
- Vt71fcAqt7 3y ago
  >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_Differences_and_Related_Factors_Affecting.8.aspx https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2005/04000/Gender_Di... [1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079945/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079945/
  - skyyler 3y ago
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    - esyir 3y ago
      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.
      - skyyler 3y ago
        Population analyses don’t show that women don’t play video games.
        esyir 3y ago
        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.
        skyyler 3y ago
        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.

skyyler 3y ago

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.

Vt71fcAqt7 3y ago
>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_Differences_and_Related_Factors_Affecting.8.aspx https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2005/04000/Gender_Di... [1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079945/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079945/
- skyyler 3y ago
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  - esyir 3y ago
    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.
    - skyyler 3y ago
      Population analyses don’t show that women don’t play video games.
      - esyir 3y ago
        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.
        skyyler 3y ago
        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.