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Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly (kotaku.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The new data also reveals that 45% of Xbox owners and 41% of PS5 owners are female, too

This really shouldn’t be news and it certainly shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, but yes, new data from Circana shows that—as we told you in 2017—women play video games. In fact, more than half of all Switch owners are women. And a very vocal bunch of idiots are reacting about as well as you’d expect to this “revelation.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No Kotaku is acting like this. There was a distinct lack of evidence in their article

Some suggested the data is wrong or that the owner stats are skewed by moms buying consoles for boys

This isn't acting poorly, this is just questioning the methodology, which is a good idea, because a lot of these surveys are very poorly done or have obvious holes in them like that one. .

They later shared the methodology, but it still isn't clear what the exact questions were.

The rest of the article is the Kotaku writer speaking very vaguely about people. Was it 2? 200? 2000? who responded like this? You certainly wouldn't know from that article, but Kotaku isn't shy about painting all gamers with the same brush in the headline.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're "questioning the methodology" because they didn't like the answer. While, yes, being skeptical is good, this skepticism wouldn't even be happening if the result was what gAmErS wanted it to be

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

yeah we don't have to pretend most of the unskewing here is being done with good intentions because it's not, lol. there is a real, unambiguous swath of capital-G Gamers who hate the idea of gaming being something women also participate in, and they do everything in their social power to raise a fuss about it.