Girls: why they game less

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Girls. They have stumped men for ages with their ways. The biggest mystery of all? Why they don’t play games as much as men. A recent study from Michigan State University has discovered the conclusive truth (until another study comes along and proves it wrong). Women have better things to do and thus have no time to play games. They study found that men have more leisure time because women usually do about twice the amount of work each week than men do.

“Our findings suggest that one reason women play fewer games than men is because they are required to fulfill more obligatory activities, leaving them less available leisure time,” said Jillian Winn of MSU’s Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, and one of the co-authors of the study, which studied 276 MSU undergraduate students. Aside from the fact that men are evidently massive slackers, the study points out the fact that games aren’t really directed at women, and if they were they’d probably be more interested. Also games aren’t designed by women… blah, blah, blah. We’ve heard that stuff before.  

Also interesting — maybe even more interesting — is that while playing games does mean that less schoolwork gets done it does not mean a decrease in one’s GPA. Hear that? Gamers are smart… or everyone had low GPAs to begin with.

 


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