Is there discrimination between men and women in Netoge?

by Taylor Harding

Frequently discussion in online games is about " whether women and men treat differently ." Those who have actually played online games, those who have seen a player who has patronized a female player, a player who throws a sexual harassment, a player who accuses himself of being a woman because he is a bad player There should be many. A person who tried to scientifically confront such discussion played overwatch "popular online shooting" 339 times and analyze the surrounding reaction.

Randomized trial on gender in Overwatch
http://danluu.com/overwatch-gender/

It was Dan Luu, programmer, who performed the analysis. In 339 game play, we play with masculine name in half and feminine name in half and record comments from other players in each play. The comment seems to have been classified as either "sexual / gender related", "game play related", "insulting" or "complimentary". In experiments, we decide the character to be used in each play at random using a dedicated algorithm. In order to record the comments of other players in the game, the voice chat in the game is turned on, and Mr. Luu speaks to mute his / her own voice so that there is no imbalance in the comments of other players so that they will be dedicated "Reaction from other players" collected. In addition, it seems that chatting with text was done for communication with other players.

by Sean Do

◆ Comments related to sexual / gender classification Comments are classified, and as a result of analyzing "sexual comments" or "sexually related comments", "When using feminine names, more I thought that sexual comments would be posted, but in reality it was not so, "Luu wrote. Whether it is a masculine name or a feminine name, there are comments on gender and references to gender from other players, so that more sexual comments can be gathered by who is playing with sex There was no statistically significant difference. However, it says that when using a masculine name on numbers, more people will hear more sexual comments.

Even with "sexual comments", most comments are said to be "comments directed to other players other than Luu" or "general comments on teams and in-game chats." Whether you used the name of either gender a relatively large number of things you could check is "How can I stop the girlfriend's sexting ?", More direct "I'll push deeply" or "Surprised It seems to be an expression such as "you do not care about yourself." And it seems that only sexual comments directly sent to Mr. Luu were two: "Please ask mom, please coochie " and "My grandchild is ticky".

Luu who thought that more female name players would receive more sexual comments, but the results of the investigation are also consistent with the papers published in the past (PDF) . As for the fact that the sample of the survey is only 339 game playings, Mr. Luu says "Although it may be less for gamers, only 163 samples are used in the same study in the past, " he wrote, I insist that it is sufficient number of times.

by Andre Hunter

◆ Comment on Game Play The following graph shows the probability of other players' comments on game play, the man (M) female (F) and the play mode "Quick Play (QP)" "rival play ) Indicated separately. "Est" shows how much different probability of being told comment on game play by gender, when playing in each mode is different. According to this, there is a high probability that women will most likely receive comments on game play when playing games in "rival play", and the probability is 19%.

From figures, female players tend to be more commenting on play than male players, and more when playing with "rival play" rather than playing with "quick play", people tend to comment on game play It is clear that there is something.

According to Luu, "In order to avoid bias, only the specific opinions on game play, such as" Play is wrong "or" You should use another character " As a rule of thumb, Luu wrote that it tends to be said that opinions on more play are more likely. Also, if you are playing a game with a masculine name, there will be more polite requests such as "Increase the number of healers or switch to a tank as it tends to die earlier", whereas if you play with a feminine name, you play It seems that there are more comments like pushing the cause of the team losing woman called "garbage".

by Samantha Sophia

However, because the survey conducted by Mr. Luu does not disclose the methodology etc. to the test subjects, it is said that there may be problems due to bias or selective reporting, and this survey is only for the end Mr. Luu has declined that it was done by a hobby and not done with accuracy like academic papers etc.

◆ Differences occurring in other men and women <br> Others, Luu "Strange event that occurred only when playing with a woman's name" encountered while playing overwatch during the investigation period and outside the period Has compiled it.

· An annoying friend request is sent from a person who has never exchanged sentences or verbally. (Encounter 7 times)
· It is a case that other team players judge that TeamMate's defense against Luu who is using a healer is thin, criticize the team of Luu, abandon the game, and the team of Luu will win. (Encountered once during the experiment)
· A case where a team member tries to flirt with Luu, and if Luu finds that he does not respond, he will vomit a word. (Encountered once during survey, once outside the investigation period)

Whether the male or female player names are used, the possibility that comments on compliments on the content of play will be received has not changed significantly. In the case of a masculine name, short praise is sent shortly to the fact, while in the case of a feminine name there are many cases that give more emotional comments, and there were cases where several people concurred at the same time is.

◆ Men and women who do not make a difference <br> The difference between men and women was not seen in the probability of receiving insulting comments gathered in the game and supplementary comments about game play.