Drawing Minorities Into Gaming

UnseenOperation writes "CNN has up entitled an article Drawing Minorities Into Gaming, which discusses the lack of minority heroes in games as well as the lack of minorities in game development. The article states that black and hispanic youths spend more time playing videogames than whites but members of those groups make up less than 7 percent of the industry workforce." From the article: "Roughly 80 percent of video game programmers are white, according to preliminary results of an International Game Developers Association survey. About four percent of designers are Hispanic, and less than three percent are black...A March study by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed that black youths between 8 and 18 years old played video and computer games roughly 90 minutes a day -- almost 30 minutes more than white youths. And Hispanics play about 10 minutes more per day than whites."

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Game development, not gaming

[Henry V .009]

If you want to draw more Blacks and Hispanics into game development, you're going to have to develop an IQ boosting pill. Their population averages for IQ are about 85 and 90 respectively. Assume that you need an IQ of at least 110 to participate in game development. A little calculation with the old z-table gives me: 5% of Blacks have IQs above 110, 9% of Hispanics do, and 25% of Whites do (avg. IQ 100). For Asians (avg. 105) this would be 37%. For Ashkenazi Jews (avg. 110) this would be 50%.