Gamergaters in a nutshell...
Short version: Gamergaters = low-ranking males who are shitty gamers and feel their social status threatened by the arrival of women in the gaming scene. Yup, they're little boys who think girls have cooties...lol! It seems that competent male gamers don't feel threatened by the arrival of women in gaming.
Gamergate, it's about little boys fear of women gamers beating them.
Why, thank you for proving yet again how easily people are led by a corrupt and lazy media. Did you read the study before posting? Of course not, you can "trust" the washington post right?
Another bunk study makes the rounds, done by Michael M. Kasumovic, same guy in the dishonest ABC Good Game segment.
Leading to countless pieces like this
HuffPost Live: Study Shows Men Who Harass Women Online Are Actually Losers(<-Katherine Cross works for Anita Sarkeesian)
Video Game Journalism (YTheAlien)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZS1FbilVq4
But people pick apart the flawed study
Academia’s Anti-Gaming Hysteria: A conversation with Sara Rahman
https://thevikinggamer.wordpress.co...ing-hysteria-a-conversation-with-sara-rahman/
Editorial: everything you know about boys, video games, and surveys might be wrong
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2015/07...mes-and-surveys-might-be-wrong-0#.VbKkrbNVhBd
Sexist Male Gamer Losers!? Martyr's Analysis!
Video Culture Replay Blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLgfm0XrIFQ
The Young Turks Misrepresents Gaming
TylerPreston20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_DGsKi0wQ4
The Young Turks try to slander gamers, fail, and fling their poo instead [SFMGQ] #GamerGate
Top Hats and Champagne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkbc459n488
Halo 3 Sexism Study Debunked #GamerGate
zootman525
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g59VmGjGNw
"New Study" Shows Male Gamers Hate Women They Lose Against?
ProtoMario
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E743LiMk8ws
#GamerGate: Debunking "Study on sexism in gaming"
LtSarge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYDAOtXFKmU
A new look at the data from the 'low status gamers abuse women' study by Kasumovic (self.KotakuInAction)
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc..._look_at_the_data_from_the_low_status_gamers/
"82% of users recorded as making 'sexist' comments were outperforming the female test by the kdr metric.
Overall # of comments made positive, negative, and neutral declined as kdr increased.
91% of the cases of sexism could be classified as 'a positive sexist' a strange phenomenon in which the test experienced sexism but also an unusual number of positive comments were made in the same game.
83% of those the tests encountered that made sexist comments were above rank 25 in Halo 3 (on a 1-50 scale)
11/19 of the users treating the tests negatively were performing relatively well (+kdr).
The female test had a 14% lower kdr, suggesting either bias or poor experimental design.
Also, if anyone is interested in reviewing my analysis is contributing to it as an ongoing project let me know. I will make the .csv available to them.
This 'study' is starting to look like a conjob, with performance categorically in favor of the male test. It seems the experimenter has distributed small performance advantages into as many categories as possible in order to shift the overall results of the experiment. Most notably the male test won 63% more games then the female test.
7/24/15
Initially when I heard about this study I wasn't all that surprised by the ultimate results. The central claim by the experimenters Michael M. Kasumovic, and Jeffrey H. Kuznekof being;
"poorer performance (fewer kills and more deaths) resulted in more negative statements specifically in the female-voiced manipulation. We thus argue that our results best support an evolutionary explanation of female-directed aggression. Low-status males that have the most to lose due to a hierarchical reconfiguration are responding to the threat female competitors pose."
Specifically Kasumovic, and Kuznekof surmised that poorer performance by the female manipulation would result in more negative comments from all players but in particular players with low max skill levels (quantified by Halo 3's native algorithms) would be far more negative to the manipulation as they would have the 'most to lose due to hierarchical reconfiguration."
My initial approach to reviewing this data was to integrate previous conclusions with additional descriptive methods. First and foremost, by incorporation kill death ratios(KDR) for the manipulation and the focal player (the player for which comments were to be recorded referred to as 'Treatment' on the data). In my opinion, KDR is a far better descriptive model for trying to understand the effect of female players on male hierarchical reconfiguration as Max Skill by Halo 3's metric is far more abstract. Within the environment of the game players are not immediately aware of each others Max Skill as apposed to KDR which is a widely recognized local quantifier in first person shooters. In addition to KDR, calculations were done for the Win/Loss ratio of the female and male manipulations separately, average KDR of the separate manipulations, and positive/negative/neutral comments for games specifically won and lost and games where the manipulation did relatively well or poorly.
Shortly into performing the calculations for the new metrics a pattern emerged. Categorically the male manipulation outperformed the female manipulation. The male achieved 3% greater kills per game on average while sustaining 12% less deaths per game. The male manipulation had a 16% greater overall kdr (totalkills/totaldeaths) and a 30% greater average kdr. Most notably, the male manipulation had a 63% greater win/loss ratio then the female manipulation.
These systematic advantages are inarguably fatal to the conclusions of the experimenters. In order to form any valuable model of how female gamers are received into an existing hierarchy of male gamers it is imperative to have reliable controls. In this circumstance, all that can be responsibly concluded is female gamers who perform consistently poorly will receive more negative comments then a male counterpart who performs consistently better. Although the originally conclusions are entirely invalidated by the revelations I intend to continue working with the experimental data, valuable insights into the differences between male/female gaming experiences are still possible."
Michael Kasumovic Paid to Have His 'Study' Published, Sham 'Journal' Has Extremely Low Standards [SocJus] (self.KotakuInAction)
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3ebhm4/michael_kasumovic_paid_to_have_his_study/
"...You will no doubt have heard about the 'study' showing that 'sexism is gaming' is the result of low skill. Those of you who are in academia will have noticed: this 'study' was freely accessible. This is unusual, because normally, you have to pay a lot of money to access studies in actual journals. It turns out that it was not published in an actual journal, but in an internet 'journal' known as PLOS. They will basically publish anything, as long as their faults are not glaringly obvious...."
some links to kasumovic's past works/info and the study
http://pastebin.com/0XMwU5LS
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131613
Wiseman and Burch of the previous "teen boys want less sexist games" narrative twitter survey study refuse to release their data set even though its anonymous
https://twitter.com/atlasnodded/status/623926644823195649
The people behind the study that said kids want less "oversexualization in games" (which turned out being a public SurveyMonkey poll distributed around feminist Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr pages) confirm they're NOT releasing their raw data
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc..._people_behind_the_study_that_said_kids_want/
and you do realize if I humor your assertion about bad gamers...
this person is a misogynist
After seeing that study linked on Ars Technica and watching a streamer last night, I sat in anticipation when she switched to CS:GO. Why was I on the edge of my seat? Well, I was rather curious what would happen when she spoke up! When she said something, I believe the first comment was, "A George Foreman!" It took me a second to put two-and-two together, but for those not familiar with the weird terms used by the game streaming "culture", "grill" = "girl" (similarly, "picnic" = "panic" and "rito" = "riot"). It's weird... I know.
The study was bunk as shown above.
Women get more attention of all sorts, which is why so many are able to actually get paid for effectively just playing a video game...even badly, its just a double edged sword. Anyways, goes to show, whether ars or the washington post or the new york times, none will fact check a study if its "too good to check".
and yes, game theory's been very "real" lately, which is by default anti-sjw
Game Theory: The Strategy of Sex Appeal in Dead or Alive
The Game Theorists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpUs8oNjuV8
Game Theory: Red vs Blue, The SECRET Color Strategy
The Game Theorists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X31K6jammH0
This tumblr nonsense happened..
Polygon - How women gaming stars would look if they weren't sexualized fantasies
By Colin Campbell on Jul 23, 2015 at 2:18p @ColinCampbellx
https://archive.is/ABcUb
someone put "real" women back into the picture....
Meg Turney is having none of it
Should Video Game Vixens Be Heavier? - The Know
The Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7fklGX6Ft0
Even Forbes
These Resized Female Video Game Characters Aren't More 'Realistic' Than Before
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...ent-more-realistic-than-before/#comment_reply
Dealing with Feminist Video Game Censorship
Uchiha Obito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R_FvNQcqHE
aGGros tried an #offendgamergate tag
but how can you offend channers?
http://i.imgur.com/v9whPkK.png
And the GamerGate funded/supported game from the Fine Young Capitalists was green lit
Afterlife Empire
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=370251965
People dug up Destructoid's Jed Whitaker "Raping Some Zombie Bitch Cunts With My Peashooter" video
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc...destructoids_jed_whitaker_raping_some_zombie/
https://vid.me/VEEu
ANTI-VIDEO GAME CRUSADER JACK THOMPSON TALKS CENSORSHIP AND ANITA SARKEESIAN
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...ompson-talks-censorship-and-anita-sarkeesian/
"cultural appropriation" bonus since its the same kind of people causing problems in gaming
https://twitter.com/seltaire/status/624308686089924608
read the sign on the right...
http://i.imgur.com/GqN1NzB.jpg
Can Foreigners wear Kimono? ボストン美術館・着物イベントに批判で中止？
Rachel & Jun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwoSYWIgV9Y
Tumblrisms - Cultural Appropriation [mirror]
InternetAristocrat Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMrYfKo9qoY
bonus Shoe0nHead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2qw8sgEdRw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyclUE2RC8k
http://shoe0nhead.blogspot.com/
didn't realize until now, but its up to 429k views...
the social justice league vs. gamers
Shoe0nHead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QimugVfXtbU
And related to the actual consequences of "harassment" on twitter
http://www.therebel.media/exclusive_interview_his_father
man is facing jail over "offending" a feminist in canada.
out of curiosity do you watch and read everything you post, or do you skim the highlights? I have to admit I'm a bit impressed that you spend a lot of time making these posts week after week. If I watched and read everything you put up I'm not sure I could work and have a life. Hats off to you if you pull it off.
yes, that's why I post so rarely.
Anyways, edited both posts for image limit overflow and missing links...
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