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The only fake gamer girl we've ever seen is elon musk (lemmy.today)

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I mean, I don't disagree that that's possible as well.

I'm just summarizing the literature on this, there are many more studies that indicate the effect difference exists, and as I said... nobody that I am aware of has sort of cleared the field with a broadly accepted explanation for why the observable effect does actually exist.

It's an open question in the published papers on this, afaik.

But yeah!

I agree with you, it would interesting to see a paper that actually takes into account essentially experience with different kinds of games with different kinds of practiced skillsets...

...and yeah definitely for quite a long time, video gaming was marketed as primarily 'male'... you'd get 'girl' games like Barbie's Horse Adventure, things that were some 90s marketing exec's idea of what a girl would want in a video game, and then the rest was John Romero's about to make you his BITCH, SUCK IT DOWN... etc.

Yeah, I remember 'GIRL = Guy In Real Life', I was in Ventrilo servers where a girl would join, and half the boys there would just immediately assume they're not actually a girl. There was a great deal of misogyny in video gaming, that has only somewhat lessened fairly recently.

It is indeed highly plausible to me that none of the eggheads who have studied this so far have gotten far into the science of how... yeah, video gaming? Being able to play video games?

Yeah thats actually a complex suite or combo if different mental and physical skills, like how a martial artist will tell you there's a lot more to unarmed combat than 'be fast and strong'.