Video game study finds losers more likely to harass women
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#2I mean... Isn't that already the definition of a loser? Harassing people?
EDIT: Yes, I know. HN seems to put far less effort into detecting sarcasm than any other online community.
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#3"The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers."
What in this study suggested that?
The base study is very interesting, but basically seems to say that losers seek to make someone else feel bad so they look for an easy and lower status target.
Seems like it's not the video games as much as society and culture, with video games just being one of MANY places you can see this behavior.
For instance, domestic violence spikes among fans of the losing teams in NFL[1]
[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...
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#4Studying harassment on XBox Live is a bit like going to the Dead Sea to test oceanic salinity levels.
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#5I mean... Isn't that already the definition of a loser? Harassing people? EDIT: Yes, I know. HN seems to put far less effort into detecting sarcasm than any other online community.
It's a different definition. The operative definition in this case is "a person that loses".
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#6UN study finds USA is more likely to bomb a muslim wedding with a drone
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#8Link to the paper anywhere? (Can't tell if I'm just not seeing it.)
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#9I mean... Isn't that already the definition of a loser? Harassing people? EDIT: Yes, I know. HN seems to put far less effort into detecting sarcasm than any other online community.
Not really. David Miscavige is well known for harassing (both indirectly and through proxies) and physically beating people and he's generally been pretty successful.
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#10The article is available here http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....