Girl Gamers More Hardcore Than Guys

Scientific American reports on a study published this month in the Journal of Communication, which found that women who engage in a role-playing game online actually commit more time on average than the male players do. The authors surveyed 7,000 players logged in to EverQuest II (PDF), and found that the average age of the gamers surveyed was 31, and that playing time tended to increase with age. Interestingly, however, the female gamers not only tended to log more time online (29 hours per week versus 25 for the males), but were also more likely to lie about how much they really play.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/1...core-Than-Guys

Obviously there's more male gamers so it only takes a small number of obsessive females to tip that average over that 25 hours, another example of interpreting statistics to get the headline you want.