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Study: Women Need To Start Gaming

September 19, 2007 in News comments 5

A recent study by Economist shows that women need to start gaming to catch up to the advantages that men have over them. Tests were done and men and women played a game called "Odd Man Out" where you use your common sense to point something out that is different between about a dozen objects. The women didn't do particularly good. Then, the women were forced to play 10 hours of Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault over a five month period and suddenly, the women did as good as the men. So now you know, all you ladies out there...get on gaming!

That has several implications. One is that playing violent computer games can have beneficial effects. Another is that the games might provide a way of rapidly improving spatial ability in people such as drivers and soldiers. And a third is that although genes are important, upbringing matters, too.
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    FRoGBuster Sep 20, 07
    good. Such FPS games improve spatial awareness because of the game design, and also it's violence I assume. Because adrenaline assists in memory potency and retention.
    Other games are good for other sorts of awareness and skills. Some can stimulate your mathematical prowess, your artistic visual compositional awareness, your compassion (or indifference), environmental awareness, etc.
    games are just interactive media, tools that engage its viewer. And this may involve entertainment, just as well as skill development, athletic training, military training, education, what have you.
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    Bale Fire* Sep 20, 07
    I've always wondered why videogames appeal so much to men but not to women. I mean sure there are quite a few women gamers out there but definitely a minority. I only know one serious female gamer
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    ShinyMilotic Sep 20, 07
    Hmm yeah, there are games targeted at females as well.
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    Riku31069 Sep 20, 07
    Wow...this is actually kind of weird. But I always wonder why there are only a few women who play video games but quite a lot of men like to play them...
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    Final Blade Sep 20, 07
    This article is dumb, women has been shown to be smarter to men in many area's, just cause women can't do that well on games means nothing to common sense.

    Also the reason why some women don't like videogames is cause they feel(sometimes) its for kids and adults should do adult things.

    Also personally i think girls who likes games like men is very cool, but they shouldn't have to play games cause of articles like this that proves nothing. Besides those tests aren't the majority of women anyway.

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