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Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity
eldavojohn writes "A new study has found that game characters tend not to reflect cultural diversity. According to the paper from researchers across four universities (PDF): 'A large-scale content analysis of characters in video games was employed to answer questions about their representations of gender, race and age in comparison to the US population. The sample included 150 games from a year across nine platforms, with the results weighted according to game sales. ... The results show a systematic over-representation of males, white and adults and a systematic under-representation of females, Hispanics, Native Americans, children and the elderly.' The researchers also note that games 'function as crucial gatekeepers for interest in science, technology, engineering and math,' and that without these groups represented properly, 'it may place underrepresented groups behind the curve.'"
=S That isn't science either, and global warming isn't happening. The studies presented to the people attending the Kyoto Protocol conference were from a group of two scientists, only. The data and conclusions presented by said scientists were soon after examined by other scientists and shown to use inaccurate, outdated data and selectively omit much other data. The mathematical means for calculating their "L shaped graph" demonstrating a massive upsurge in global temperature was also shown to be fraudulent, and has been contradicted by almost every other study done on the subject... more recent among them coming out of Cal Tech, UC system schools, and MIT demonstrating that warming and cooling cycles fluctuate based on solar cycles/based on our star system's position in the milky way galaxy over time, and that the overall trend is toward another ice age/cooling period, not the opposite. Not all things purported as science, or commonly called science, are honest or "good science". Unfortunately, there seems to be a scarcity of good science while misleading, business driven, controversy driven and fraudulent "science" seem to be running amok. =(