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> 30% of the 489 women polled - almost one in three - said they had experienced abuse and toxicity when gaming online

> Of this 30%, the majority (72%) said the abuse was misogynistic. By comparison, none of the male respondents reported any gender-based discrimination or abuse



Ok, I missed that. So they did compare men in the specific category of "gender-based discrimination". Now if you look up this comment thread, you will see that the question I posed was "Are gamers really more toxic towards women than men? I feel like switching gender will just switch one kind of toxicity to another." So if you wanted to actually answer this question, you would compare how much abuse and toxicity women receive compared to men. This is not something that the linked article tries to do, at all. "30% of the 489 women polled - almost one in three - said they had experienced abuse and toxicity when gaming online" - so is that more than men, or is that less than men?




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