Link to the paper anywhere? (Can't tell if I'm just not seeing it.)
I didn't see it anywhere either. Found it here http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
thanks
Video game study finds losers more likely to harass women
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sarcasm aside, this is actually what the article is literally suggesting: > 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.
I got knee jerk downvoted for that so hard I have whiplash. I rtfa, it ignores anything else and pretends gamers exist in a vacuum.
It's also much too narrowly scoped. Even if it were a random sampling across a variety of XBox Live games, it would still only be representative of XBox Live gamers, which is its own demographic.
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#23Men have a fear of other men, so they're much less likely to insult them. Throughout our evolution, getting angry and insulting men is more likely to get a male killed. Because men naturally don't fear women they're more likely to express anger and blame on them. "But they're on Xbox live" you say. The evolutionary response is ingrained permanently.
Source?
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#24How about a rule title change to "poorly performing video gamers more likely to harass women". Not only is the title inaccurate and click baity, but as someone who was physically bullied in school for being an actual loser, it triggers me.
Because the author is a poorly performing writer more likely to harass gamers, thus continuing the cycle.
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#25News flash: the same concept can be demonstrated in real-life.
Re: Video game study finds losers more likely to harass women
#26How about a rule title change to "poorly performing video gamers more likely to harass women". Not only is the title inaccurate and click baity, but as someone who was physically bullied in school for being an actual loser, it triggers me.
Because that is the title of the article, and why should it be the "world's" job to protect you from your mental inadequacies?
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#27Study: People who are not taking things seriously are more likely not to be serious.
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#28In related news, miserable people apt to project their pain onto innocent bystanders.
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#29"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…
Haven't you heard? People that play videogames are evil misogynists and sexism doesn't exist elsewhere.
No, it doesn't say that. You are oversimplifying in order obfuscate and ignore what the article is actually saying.
This is a very common sophistry tactic. You are lowering the level of discourse on HN by not attempting to fully understand what is being said.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sarcasm aside, this is actually what the article is literally suggesting: > 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.
I got knee jerk downvoted for that so hard I have whiplash. I rtfa, it ignores anything else and pretends gamers exist in a vacuum.
The HN crowd tries to discourage sarcasm. It doesn't matter if you are correct if you are sarcastic about it. If you had started your comment with something like "The article implies" instead of "Haven't you heard?" you probably would have been upvoted.