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>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
by 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[flagged]
- esyir 3y agoSays 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 agoPopulation analyses don’t show that women don’t play video games.
- esyir 3y agoThey 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 agoBut 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.