The Daedalus Project: The Demographics of Gender-Bending


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The Demographics of Gender-Bending

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Previous findings had shown that male players were significantly more likely to play characters of the opposite gender, but the age differences among male and female players was never explored in detail. It was surprising to find that older male players are the most likely players to gender-bend.

However, there was a possible confound in that older male players were also found to have more characters in general. This was not the case with female players.

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