Posts Tagged: Adventures in Demography
7

Video Game Demographics Look A Lot Like GOP Congressional Delegation

To the frontiers of technology: "You might not be surprised to hear that the demographics of video-game characters don't quite match up with those of real populations. But the first 'virtual census' of the human characters that inhabit US video games exposes just how much they diverge from reality. The survey reveals that males, adults and white people are over-represented in games. Females, black people, children and the elderly are correspondingly under-represented." What the fuck is up with that? I want to be able to blow away a bunch of mutant toddlers, damn it.