I’ve been noticing for many years and now more so via myspace that most harcore female video game players are rather unappealing in appearance. Do not get me wrong I could care less about looks. Of course, there are some good looking casual female game players (but their gaming skill leaves much to be desired).

In general, I wondered if there was an inverse correlation between a female’s physical appearance and video game playing aptitude??

Based on visual sampling with friends and myspace collected over time, I attempted to run an econometric model to prove/disprove this theory (meticulously defining thevariables to achieve a sufficiently high r-squared result).

Unfortunately, I could not determine a truly stochastic sampling because of the limited data points (female video game players). Therefore, the error term of the model did not follow a standard normal distribution, so my estimate was not unbiased (and the resulting confidence level indicators and t-stats were skewed) I attempted to modify the modeling, adjusting for correlation and some endogenous effects, and the resulting analysis appeared to show an INVERSE relationship between a female’s physical appearance and video game playing skill.

Not truly satisfied with the results, I decided to turn to the expertise in the video gaming discussion sites to corroborate or disprove my results from firsthand experience. No luck.

Any thoughts by anyone???