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Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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Viewing the initial question from a perspective of social status the answers the article makes have pretty simple answers. Males competing between other males in video games and win gains a perceived gain in social status, so when they put down the game and face others around them there is a natural clash as the social status gain is seen nor recognized by the social environment outside the game. Aggression is common…

Where do you think those differences in social status competitions originate from if not from brain differences?

Cultural acceptance / expectations account for a lot of behaviors. I played soccer & baseball as a boy because that was what was expected of me, not because I have some natural inclination to do so.

Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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Is there a way to design the flag mechanism so that quality articles do not die even though they are polarizing?

In theory, the mods can whitelist those articles manually after seeing them repeatedly flagged and vouched for.

However, we know that the mods have already seen this article since the link was changed from the archive to the paywall URL. In addition, I believe they've said in the past that they want to discourage particularly controversial stories. And biology studies like this are unfortunately controversial to the general public these days.

Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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post #32

Is there a way to design the flag mechanism so that quality articles do not die even though they are polarizing?

In theory, the mods can whitelist those articles manually after seeing them repeatedly flagged and vouched for. However, we know that the mods have already seen this article since the link was changed from the archive to the paywall URL. In addition, I believe they've said in the past that they want to discourage particularly controversial stories. And biology studies like this are unfortunately controversial to the…

I agree with your assessment; I believe the site admins are intentionally not unflagging this article to avoid controversy. It would be nice if they could come out and say that directly.

Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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Why is this flagged+dead?

Personally, I flag articles which provoke garbage conversations. It might be a great article, but if HN isn't mature enough to comment productively, it doesn't belong on HN.

I didn't flag this one, because the comments haven't derailed yet.

Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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post #32

Is there a way to design the flag mechanism so that quality articles do not die even though they are polarizing?

In theory, the mods can whitelist those articles manually after seeing them repeatedly flagged and vouched for. However, we know that the mods have already seen this article since the link was changed from the archive to the paywall URL. In addition, I believe they've said in the past that they want to discourage particularly controversial stories. And biology studies like this are unfortunately controversial to the…

> biology studies like this are unfortunately controversial to the general public these days.

...but this site is not catering to the general public but to self-proclaimed hackers, a species which used to pride itself on intellectual curiosity. I should know, being one of them and being as curious as I manage to find the time for. Knee-jerk flagging is definitely not something which goes together with this definition. This flagging response is akin to a politicised version of the 'Window$IsB0ll0cks/Leenucks-suckz' type of discourse found among juvenile 'script kiddies'.

Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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The author should go to India and see the space program. Might offer a different perspective. I myself coming from an Asian country have seen many girl study engineering. It is considered a carier path and nothing more. There is no stigma attached.

Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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Why is this flagged+dead?

Personally, I flag articles which provoke garbage conversations. It might be a great article, but if HN isn't mature enough to comment productively, it doesn't belong on HN. I didn't flag this one, because the comments haven't derailed yet.

Wouldn't it be better to flag the people that make the discussion garbage, instead of the article? You can flag comments too

Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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post #5

The article claims that inside games "most communication is through text". This makes me think they haven't seen very many real gamers. There's no mention of voice chat's extensive use inside games for everything from gameplay to homework advice from buddies. Pretty clueless.

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Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I flag articles which provoke garbage conversations. It might be a great article, but if HN isn't mature enough to comment productively, it doesn't belong on HN. I didn't flag this one, because the comments haven't derailed yet.

Wouldn't it be better to flag the people that make the discussion garbage, instead of the article? You can flag comments too

Garbage conversations often result when each side is saying reasonable things in isolation but are just talking at each other rather than actually conversing.

Re: Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In theory, the mods can whitelist those articles manually after seeing them repeatedly flagged and vouched for. However, we know that the mods have already seen this article since the link was changed from the archive to the paywall URL. In addition, I believe they've said in the past that they want to discourage particularly controversial stories. And biology studies like this are unfortunately controversial to the…

> biology studies like this are unfortunately controversial to the general public these days. ...but this site is not catering to the general public but to self-proclaimed hackers , a species which used to pride itself on intellectual curiosity. I should know, being one of them and being as curious as I manage to find the time for. Knee-jerk flagging is definitely not something which goes together with this definitio…

Just because there's the word hacker here doesn't mean this is a hacker space for hackers now, and nor that it will ever trend in that direction...

Some people just want an emotionally calm place to discuss ongoing industry trends they have to keep up with, a superior Reddit with more serious chat. Which group will come to define the character of this place?

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