Not everyone who plays games is the best. But some people seem to think girls are inferior at gaming. Sure some girls do suck, as do some guys, but if a girl sucks its attributed to her gender. A guy sucks, well then he just sucks, not because he owns a penis. Not to fear girls! We might be facing a stereotype threat. When someone is being tested (i.e. playing a multiplayer game) on a skill that is not something their group of people is seen at excelling at (girls suck at videogames!) they will often do poorly compared to a situation where they were not being tested (like sitting at home playing by themselves). There are not any studies on this though so I am basically making a hypothesis that girls might suffer from a stereotype threat while playing games and this hampers performance. I could be wrong but psychology is fun just like any science!
I have no idea how to counteract this effect though so either I didn't study enough social psychology or no one figured it out....
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