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Here's an interesting study into the psyche of online gamers' gender biases
This may come as a surprise to no one, but men and women are treated totally oppositely in online games. According a new study, the guys who are jerks in online shooters make plenty of friends, while unruly women, not so much. The takeaway in short is that online game communities support gender biases, frowning upon trash-talking females, while admiring their male counterparts. Here’s how the experiment worked. Researchers at various universities (Virginia Tech, Ohio State, and Penn State) had one Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3player pose as both a male and female in 238 rounds of deathmatch. During these…