Attractive People Are Less Likely To Play Video Games, NBER Study Says

[Marcus]

Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?

We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are better-looking have more close friends.

Arguably, gaming is costlier for them, and they thus engage in less of it. Physically attractive teens are less likely to engage in gaming at all, whereas unattractive teens who do game spend more time each week on it than other gamers.

Attractive adults are also less likely than others to spend any time gaming; and if they do, they spend less time on it than less attractive adults. Using the longitudinal nature of the Add Health Study, we find supportive evidence that these relationships are causal for adults: good looks decrease gaming time, not vice-versa.

source: https://www.nber.org/papers/w32809

link to the study: https://www.nber.org/system/files/worki ... w32809.pdf

[rusty_shackleford]

instead they spend 80% of their time doomscrolling on their phone and watching some stupid tv show about the life of celebrities

(this isn't unique to them, that's what everyone does btw)

[Thor Kaufman]

Groundbreaking stuff. /s

Related:
Gotta love normie ******* and their retardation and gaslighting. "Stop playing games, touch grass, talk to people and girls."
******, people are coping with gaming because the world rejects them lol
Always "amazing" to see how ******* mix up cause and effect.

[KnightoftheWind]

Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?

We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are better-looking have more close friends.

Arguably, gaming is costlier for them, and they thus engage in less of it. Physically attractive teens are less likely to engage in gaming at all, whereas unattractive teens who do game spend more time each week on it than other gamers.

Attractive adults are also less likely than others to spend any time gaming; and if they do, they spend less time on it than less attractive adults. Using the longitudinal nature of the Add Health Study, we find supportive evidence that these relationships are causal for adults: good looks decrease gaming time, not vice-versa.

source: https://www.nber.org/papers/w32809

link to the study: https://www.nber.org/system/files/worki ... w32809.pdf

Journos have been hating gaymers since the beginning.

[Statesman]

Journos have been hating gaymers since the beginning.

The sad thing is that everyone hates journos. They simply cling to the idea that "People like me" because their job is to force "celebs" to say something under the threat of implied bad press otherwise.

[Xenich]

Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?

We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are better-looking have more close friends.

Arguably, gaming is costlier for them, and they thus engage in less of it. Physically attractive teens are less likely to engage in gaming at all, whereas unattractive teens who do game spend more time each week on it than other gamers.

Attractive adults are also less likely than others to spend any time gaming; and if they do, they spend less time on it than less attractive adults. Using the longitudinal nature of the Add Health Study, we find supportive evidence that these relationships are causal for adults: good looks decrease gaming time, not vice-versa.

source: https://www.nber.org/papers/w32809

link to the study: https://www.nber.org/system/files/worki ... w32809.pdf

Can't speak to "attractive", but...

Early on gaming was comprised of mostly intelligent people (at least PC gaming was) as one had to be able to work on their machine, deal with numerous OS/software issues that required good knowledge in computers, software, networking, etc...

My experience in early multiplayer gaming was mostly professionals (engineers, techs, etc...). There were the ******* who would head to the computer store and pay enormous amounts of money to have someone build the a machine, configure it for them, setup their games, etc... , but for the most part the people who played were at least knowledgeable and skilled to an extent which tended to reflect their behavior.

UO, EQ early wasn't too bad *MUDs were a bit different as you had kids from college which were hit and miss on social mannerisms), but over time... you got less skilled, average people, and kiddies "my mommy bought me a pewter for Christmas!" and of course... with WoW you got the console tards, soccor moms, etc... (ie mainstream).

Now it seems gaming is for ******** people who lack intelligence, have extremely poor social mannerisms and behavior and lack complete self control.

Which I think would explain why a lot of gamers are fat turds who let themselves go these days.

Not sure if that is a "gaming" thing though, as I think most people these days are fat ugly lards who don't take care of themselves, not to mention the women who think looking ugly is a statement.

[maidenhaver]

I think I just don't give a **** what journalists say.

[1998]

Now how about a study of the correlation between a game journo or game dev and attractiveness. I am waiting...

[Marcus]

******, people are coping with gaming because the world rejects them lol
Always "amazing" to see how ******* mix up cause and effect.

Hold it, boyo! It's not that the world is rejecting people - what's really going is that people are rejecting God which is creating all their problems. Talk about mixing up cause and effect. ;P

Journos have been hating gaymers since the beginning.

I think I just don't give a **** what journalists say.

Not sure why you guys are bringing up journalists. I quoted directly from the website of the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research). You can read the study here: https://www.nber.org/system/files/worki ... w32809.pdf

And here are the guys who conducted the study:

[rusty_shackleford]

now convinced this is just a fake study to hate gamers after you posted a jew and a bunch of ******

[maidenhaver]

Now how about a study of the correlation between a game journo or game dev and attractiveness. I am waiting...

Can we also study the correlation between asians and cheating on tests?

[rusty_shackleford]

if you only play 3 hours of games a week you aren't a gamer btw

need to put the minimum at around 30

[Thor Kaufman]

******, people are coping with gaming because the world rejects them lol
Always "amazing" to see how ******* mix up cause and effect.

Hold it, boyo! It's not that the world is rejecting people - what's really going is that people are rejecting God which is creating all their problems. Talk about mixing up cause and effect. ;P

Well, that, too, obviously. But I don't get how that is related to my point. People are not creating all their problems by themselves. Ugliness just gets rejected. XD

[Shillitron]

Apparently "Attractive People Are Less Likely To Report on Video Games" as well. Just look at the author of this article. ACK ACK ACK

[rusty_shackleford]

I refuse to believe that few people play video games, and especially for such a small amount. Even the most normiecore normies I know play phone games for a couple hours a day. This includes boomers who play **** like those candy games. 0-1 hours a week being the majority? Doubt it.

[ArcaneLurker]

Preference for video games isn't necessarily because of ugliness. There are well known examples to the contrary. But there are many ugly people, and all those ugly people have to do something with their time, and socialising or networking in real life isn't much of an option for them compared to beautiful people.

Certain games seem to attract uglies & crazies more, like Second Life, and it's easy to see why, they can RP as someone they're not, and use their imagination whilst (kind of) socialising with others who are doing the same.

The focus on gaming over real life is either caused by a lack of interest in building and maintaining big social circles, or it's a lack of ability, and in the latter case, ugliness is a very obvious obstacle, as is having halitosis/ bad hygiene, or being raised in a cult that is widely despised by most of the population. Even being the type of kid that isn't afraid to ask questions that lead to controversial answers is going to make socialising difficult. In the former case, well, men aren't really that interested in such things at the same frequency. It's off-putting that people have to mould themselves to the desires of morons, or at least make a pretence of it, in order to properly socialise.

[Lich]

I skimmed the study but if this is its main method for measuring attractiveness, the quality of the study is bad:

We focus on Wave I to examine teenage behavior and Wave IV, conducted in 2008, when respondents had reached adulthood (generally ages 26-32). In each wave, at the end of each interview, the field interviewer rated the physical attractiveness of the respondent according to the following question: How physically attractive is the respondent? with the following options: 1. “very unattractive”, 2. “unattractive”, 3. “about average”, 4. “attractive”, and 5. “very attractive”.

On the general topic of attractiveness and gaming, most younger men I know play video games not limited to mainstream games, regardless of their features. I've never met an attractive woman who played non-mainstream games.

[CSM-101]

As an attractive and fit person, I can safely say this article is wrong.

[Nooneatall]

Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?

We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are better-looking have more close friends.

Arguably, gaming is costlier for them, and they thus engage in less of it. Physically attractive teens are less likely to engage in gaming at all, whereas unattractive teens who do game spend more time each week on it than other gamers.

Attractive adults are also less likely than others to spend any time gaming; and if they do, they spend less time on it than less attractive adults. Using the longitudinal nature of the Add Health Study, we find supportive evidence that these relationships are causal for adults: good looks decrease gaming time, not vice-versa.

source: https://www.nber.org/papers/w32809

link to the study: https://www.nber.org/system/files/worki ... w32809.pdf

Checks out, I look like an obese quasi modo

[maidenhaver]

I refuse to believe that few people play video games, and especially for such a small amount. Even the most normiecore normies I know play phone games for a couple hours a day. This includes boomers who play **** like those candy games. 0-1 hours a week being the majority? Doubt it.

I have hundreds of games on my phone, from dreamcast and back, but I play maybe an hour or two a week. I'm burned out. I know exactly what game I want to play, but it hasn't been made.

[ArcaneLurker]

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It's ironic because gaming has become gay or otherwise orientated around women anyway.

[rusty_shackleford]

It's ironic because gaming has become gay or otherwise orientated around women anyway.

They never had any interest in actually playing games, they just wanted to make them worse because men like them.

[A Chinese opium den]

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It's ironic because gaming has become gay or otherwise orientated around women anyway.

As it should be, in a perfect world every single hobby I have would be a 100 in unattractiveness to women.

[Nooneatall]

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It's ironic because gaming has become gay or otherwise orientated around women anyway.

Women hate it when men do things other then give them attention, more news at 10.

How in the **** is collecting dolls more attractive lol that's so gay and childish

[ArcaneLurker]

Coordinated efforts from the thot hive-mind to attack gamers.



It's ironic because gaming has become gay or otherwise orientated around women anyway.

Women hate it when men do things other then give them attention, more news at 10.

How in the **** is collecting dolls more attractive lol that's so gay and childish

Playing with animal corpses and Formaldehyde in a shed
Playing vidya with friends online

Not that I have anything against professional taxidermy-- but as a hobby or leisure?

[J-12]

Unrelated to thread, but this reminds me how World Health Organization removed being gay/***** out of mental disorders and then added "videogames addiction" in the list of them, so cutting your **** off and calling yourself a woman became the norm, yet playing videogames is too much and you need psychological treatment if you do.
I don't trust such "studies" after that anymore.

[Vergil]

New Study: People I don't like are ugly poo poo dum dums who smell bad

[Nooneatall]

"You play video games? What a ******* loser!"
Goes on to lay in bed all day hungover doom scrolling tiktok and crying because they live in a studio apartment with roommates instead of living it up with a rich chad on a yacht

[BlueMemphis]

I feel like this is due to casualisation of games and normies flooding the stats and thus lowering general standards from the peak of virility and sexiness that were OG outcast nerds and gamers in the 90s-00s.

Now grandmas playing candycrush for 20 mins count as a "gamer" according to modern infographics, so no **** these are the results we get. There's only so much studs like me can do to bring the average of physical attractiveness up when i have to compensate for 20 landwhales with blue hair.

[LemonDemonGirl]

Coordinated efforts from the thot hive-mind to attack gamers.



It's ironic because gaming has become gay or otherwise orientated around women anyway.

Why the **** isn't Taxidermy the number one?