@pixelspecter@xanga - better than selling sex. because then its almost like an insult. I prefer violence anyday.

It certainly appeals to men, but i don't think it has anything to do with games appealing to men's need to dominate. The same need exists within women. I've worked in the prison system. One of the things we learned in our training is that it takes at least a couple months to reduce a man to being another man's punk. Women are more vicious. They often do it in a few weeks. I could extrapolate from this that they are actually more likely to dominate, but that's not a sound conclusion. It's just a sound conclusion that women get things out of dominating just like men.

The fundamental assumption of the test, then, is wrong. It assumes that the need to dominate is a masculine thing. This is not necessarily true. The study should have focused not just on female gamers, but also had test cases that recorded brain waves in areas where both sexes commonly demonstrate the need to compete. Without such a test case, this test is rather blah.

I think the test is probably flawed.  It is generally more socially acceptable for guys to play video games and nearly every guy plays them, while women tend to shy away from them for social reasons.  That is changing little by little with the wii however.  I think as such the guys were more likely to get involved with the games since they had spent their lives getting involved in games much the same way.  I think it was simply a matter of immersion in which one group was "trained" in advance for it. 

Males are typically more technology-oriented, especially in these sorts of activities. It's because of social norms, etc. Most girls would naturally be less interested in playing any sort of computer or video game, because of said social norms. There are some girls (like the ones who frequent HardestLevel) who do enjoy games, and I think they would probably have results much more similar to those of the guys in the study than the girls in the study. We also don't have a breakdown of the specific groups of people used in this study.