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Girls in the Gaming World

Posted by michael on from the who-let-them-in dept.

dkleinsc writes "The BBC is running an article about life as a female gaming squad. There's some discussion about the welcome or lack thereof women get in the gaming community, and arguments over whether it's a good idea to have separate women's matches."

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  1. gender segregation? by PalmerEldritch42 · · Score: 4, Informative
    arguments over whether it's a good idea to have separate women's matches

    Oh come on! I think it is silly to have separate leagues for men and women in real-world sports, where it could be argued (not by me) that the physical differences between the genders would give one or the other an unfair advantage. In a virtual environment, even that would be voided. Why separate them?

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  2. Re:Sithu Thein's comment is the most interesting by venicebeach · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, men tend to perform better than women on tests of visuospatial ability. For example, they are better at mental rotation (Delgado & Prieto, 1996) and various other tests of visualspatial function (Collaer & Nelson, 2002). Men actually show different brain activations during a navigation task, something speficially relevant to these types of games (Wunderlisch, Spitzer, Tomczak, and Riepe, 2000). I'm not saying that there should be separate competitions, but I also would not assume the playing field is equal simply because muscles are not invovled.

    Collaer, M. L., & Nelson, J. D. (2002). Large visuospatial sex difference in line judgment: Possible role of attentional factors. Brain and Cognition, 49, 1-12.

    Delgado, A.R., & Prieto, G. (1996). Sex differences in visuospatial ability: do performance factors play such an important role? Memory & Cognition, 24: 504 - 510.

    Wunderlich, Spitzer, Tomczak, & Reipe (2000). Brain activation during human naviagtion: gender-different neural networks as a function of performance. Nat Neurosci. 2000 Apr;3(4):404-8.

  3. Re:Sepatate female matches? by |_uke · · Score: 4, Informative

    actually, there was a study done recently about 3d spacial processing in both men and women. (Heh, done by microsoft actually)

    On average, men have a better time processing, and virtualizing 3d information on a computer screen. But it turns out that, if you give a women a wide screen, or multi screen environment.. they can process 3d information just as good (and some times better), than men

    Just thought I would put that 2c in =)

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