In this study, there was no gender difference in the degree to which participants played video games (p > .05), suggesting that motivational levels were similar among the male and female subjects.
Still, as the researchers themselves said, results from this study provide only novel evidence; more studies need to be performed (including examining subjects from different cultural backgrounds and "social norms" [as Shivani said]) in order to definitively assert that there exist innate gender differences in aggressiveness or videogame play.
However, the researchers note that their findings are consistent with the many other studies describing gender differences in brain function.
@Erin: with sufficient evidence, studies CAN prove innate differences, without requiring subjects that are all exactly the same.
The researchers aren't stupid.
In this study, there was no gender difference in the degree to which participants played video games (p > .05), suggesting that motivational levels were similar among the male and female subjects.
Still, as the researchers themselves said, results from this study provide only novel evidence; more studies need to be performed (including examining subjects from different cultural backgrounds and "social norms" [as Shivani said]) in order to definitively assert that there exist innate gender differences in aggressiveness or videogame play.
However, the researchers note that their findings are consistent with the many other studies describing gender differences in brain function.
@Erin: with sufficient evidence, studies CAN prove innate differences, without requiring subjects that are all exactly the same.