barsoomcore
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Girls (Females) in D&D/Roleplaying
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?I think that the main reason why there are few women in gaming is because they think its a "guy" or a "boy" thing.
Strangely enough, there's lots of women persuing an acting career, and there are a few young starlets all wanting their chance to be behind camera. The WB's "The Starlet" anyone?
Now, why do the proverbial "they" separate roleplaying from professional acting, I want to know?
Strangely enough, there's lots of women persuing an acting career, and there are a few young starlets all wanting their chance to be behind camera. The WB's "The Starlet" anyone?
Now, why do the proverbial "they" separate roleplaying from professional acting, I want to know?
ThirdWizard
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Well, the statistics are inherently skewed toward the "no difference between male and female roleplaying behavior" because we are talking about women who roleplay. Of course they're going to be prone to powergaming and combat and such. That's a big part of what roleplaying is. It doesn't mean that if the "average" women was forced to roleplay for whatever reasons that they would be equally as likely to powergame, but the difference between an average male roleplayer and female roleplayer is theoretically much less than the difference between the average male roleplayer and female non-roleplayer.
A female roleplayer is much more prone to read comics, watch [shonen] anime, and other male dominated hobbies. Back in college, over half the females in my anime club played PnP RPGs (Ars Magica, Vampire, D&D, etc) and more played video games. I'm sure if you went down the hall to the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, then they would not exhibit the same behavior.
So I think the answers presented here are perfectly accurate, not being skewed with anecdotal data that is fed by bias. Because the subject of the poll is already skewed to that effect. In a way we're comparing slightly off average males to highly off average females.
A female roleplayer is much more prone to read comics, watch [shonen] anime, and other male dominated hobbies. Back in college, over half the females in my anime club played PnP RPGs (Ars Magica, Vampire, D&D, etc) and more played video games. I'm sure if you went down the hall to the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, then they would not exhibit the same behavior.
So I think the answers presented here are perfectly accurate, not being skewed with anecdotal data that is fed by bias. Because the subject of the poll is already skewed to that effect. In a way we're comparing slightly off average males to highly off average females.
PapersAndPaychecks
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I find it very strange that someone can, on the one hand, attack the original for failing to produce so-called "statistically accurate" information on the grounds that the questions are undeniably a little biased, but on the other hand then engage in what appears to be totally baseless speculation without any data whatsoever, on the same subject, in the same thread.
You can't have it both ways...
You can't have it both ways...
ThirdWizard
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Because the group being polled is not a statistically diverse chunk of the population, then there is no reason to think that their answers are biased based on what one might assume. I don't think one has to prove that those being polled are giving accurate responses, that should be a given unless proven that they arn't. In other words, it is not up to one to prove that there is no bias, it is up to one to prove that a bias exists.
EDIT: I didn't read all the answers to the questions, so I'm taking it from discussion that most answers fit the common grounds of male/female "similarity." I'm pointing out how this can be statistically accurate without doctoring of results based on the poll itself. If that has not been the case (and I don't intend to go through and read all the answers myself) then this might just be a case of selective reading on the other people's part and has influenced my response innapropriately.
EDIT: I didn't read all the answers to the questions, so I'm taking it from discussion that most answers fit the common grounds of male/female "similarity." I'm pointing out how this can be statistically accurate without doctoring of results based on the poll itself. If that has not been the case (and I don't intend to go through and read all the answers myself) then this might just be a case of selective reading on the other people's part and has influenced my response innapropriately.
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