ooooo this is fun let me play this game
ahem
Gaming is a female activity. Males should be off dying in wars and stuff, not playing video games. Females have a biological need to cooperate with each other for child rearing and gaming clans are a direct extension of this biological need.
Says 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.
Population analyses don’t show that women don’t play video games.
They 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.
>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_Di...
[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079945/