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Quote by Uptik 2000
"you also don't see a lot of women playing video games...sitting at my desk I often am reminded of the old days playing Asteroids on the original Atari until my thumb bled...
for most women, there's just not enough social interaction in these things."
You have a good point, but there is also a counter example. I live in Las Vegas and on the whole more woman play video slot machines than table games. They will sit at a machine for hours hitting the buttons and watching the little pretty wheels spin. The table games are much more social, but it seems the more complex the rules the fewer females you will see percentage wise.
If you look at any live poker room it is male dominated. There are females that play poker and table games, but on the whole they dominate the slot machines. If they are more interested in social interaction and do not play video games, why is this?
My answer is simple, while Uptik is right that women crave social interaction and do not find video games nearly as appealing as men, if you throw in an element of risk combined with strategy then women start to retreat.
It is not that video slots do not have risk, actually that is where casinos make the most money, but the risk is not coupled with actually having to challenge yourself to think. At the table games and in poker there is a requirement that you understand rules and that you can influence how much you lose by how well you play the game. This means when you lose money there is a higher element of blame that can be attributed to human error and stupidity. With the machines it is just plain luck and therefore blameless (unless you buy into some of those cyclical machine theories).
Of course then again it is the males money the females are flushing away in the slot machines so they still come out the smarter of the two.
Quote by Uptik 2000
"you also don't see a lot of women playing video games...sitting at my desk I often am reminded of the old days playing Asteroids on the original Atari until my thumb bled...
for most women, there's just not enough social interaction in these things."
You have a good point, but there is also a counter example. I live in Las Vegas and on the whole more woman play video slot machines than table games. They will sit at a machine for hours hitting the buttons and watching the little pretty wheels spin. The table games are much more social, but it seems the more complex the rules the fewer females you will see percentage wise.
If you look at any live poker room it is male dominated. There are females that play poker and table games, but on the whole they dominate the slot machines. If they are more interested in social interaction and do not play video games, why is this?
My answer is simple, while Uptik is right that women crave social interaction and do not find video games nearly as appealing as men, if you throw in an element of risk combined with strategy then women start to retreat.
It is not that video slots do not have risk, actually that is where casinos make the most money, but the risk is not coupled with actually having to challenge yourself to think. At the table games and in poker there is a requirement that you understand rules and that you can influence how much you lose by how well you play the game. This means when you lose money there is a higher element of blame that can be attributed to human error and stupidity. With the machines it is just plain luck and therefore blameless (unless you buy into some of those cyclical machine theories).
Of course then again it is the males money the females are flushing away in the slot machines so they still come out the smarter of the two.
