Giolon
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They're also poorer.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/...oorer-more-male-less-white-than-game-players/
I always find this kind demographic information interesting, especially when we get into more specfics than "I played a video game in the last 30 days." The bit about perception vs reality of the demographics particularly sticks with me as something that's talked about on this board so frequently.
Edit: There's quite a bit of other interesting data in here, like perception of how games treat minorities and women.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/...oorer-more-male-less-white-than-game-players/
Ars Technica said:Now, a new survey of US adults from the Pew Research Center shows that people who apply the "gamer" label to themselves are quite different from the wider population that plays games, both demographically and in terms of opinions about the medium. Those self-described gamers are much more likely to be young, male, non-white, and poor when compared to "non-gamer" game players.
Ars Technica said:The proportion of the population that says it "ever" plays video games is roughly equivalent across gender, racial, and income lines. But the roughly 20 percent sliver of game players that refer to themselves as "gamers" (people who "describe themselves as a fan of gaming or a frequent game-player," according to the survey wording) looks very different from the larger world of game players and from those that don't play games at all.
Ars Technica said:For instance, men and women are almost equally likely to play games at all, according to the survey, with 50 percent of men and 48 percent of women saying they play. But men are much more likely to apply the "gamer" label to themselves: 15 percent of men versus 6 percent of women. That difference in self-identification may explain why 60 percent of all respondents thought most people who play video games are men, even though the survey's topline results don't really bear this out.
I always find this kind demographic information interesting, especially when we get into more specfics than "I played a video game in the last 30 days." The bit about perception vs reality of the demographics particularly sticks with me as something that's talked about on this board so frequently.
Edit: There's quite a bit of other interesting data in here, like perception of how games treat minorities and women.