Virtual women reveal more skin, regardless of body proportions. - Polidicks

[quote] [quote] [IMG]http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2012/11/16/1226517/967568-news-second-20100305.jpg[/IMG] [/quote] [B]In the virtual world of Second Life, female avatars expose substantially more skin than males, independent of their virtual body proportions, according to research published December 26 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Matthieu Guitton and colleagues from Laval University, Canada.[/B] The human tendency to cover up stems from climatic, environmental, physical and cultural constraints, so measuring people's propensity to reveal skin can be difficult in the real world. To study human behavior free of at least some of these constraints, the researchers analyzed how male and female avatars in the virtual, 3- dimensional world of Second Life dressed. Second Life offers users options to choose the gender, appearance and attire of their virtual avatars, and users can select clothing from several items created in this virtual world, rather than being restricted to a predefined costume. They found that out of over 400 virtual people studied, 71% of male avatars covered between 75-100% of their skin, while only 5% of females did. In contrast, 47% of the virtual females they studied covered between 25-49% of their skin, compared to 9% of males. The amount of skin covered was independent of traditional gender-specific measures of physical attractiveness for virtual avatars, such as waist-chest ratios for females. According to the study, "These findings have implications for understanding how sex specific aspects of skin disclosure influence human social interactions in both virtual and real settings." Guitton adds, "Virtual settings provide a unique tool to study human behavior unhindered by physical and environmental constraints.This tool enabled us to find a dramatic gender difference in the propensity to disclose naked skin." [B]Journal: [/B] Lomanowska AM, Guitton MJ (2012) Virtually Naked: Virtual Environment Reveals Sex-Dependent Nature of Skin Disclosure. PLoS ONE 7(12): [URL="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051921"]e51921.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051921[/URL] ============================================================ Source: [URL]http://phys.org/news/2012-12-virtual-women-reveal-skin-body.html[/URL] [/quote] Wonder how long it will take Anita Sarkeesian to take this for a joy-ride..

uh they aren't really women you know

Yeah that's probably because 90% of the female avatars are guys ogling their bodies.

I don't know much about Second Life, but are the clothing options gender specific?

[QUOTE=valkery;38986894]I don't know much about Second Life, but are the clothing options gender specific?[/QUOTE] Nope. You can wear pretty much anything. One of my friends run about with a giant whale as a hat before.

[B]1.[/B] A lot of them were probably guys. [B]2.[/B] Those avatars typically considered physically unattractive probably still showed skin due to that being some guy's specific preference or a girl with that kind of body shape having confidence in her appearance and showing it online. These results fail to surprise me.

I wonder if at any point the people compiling this data had to chose whether to include or exclude anthropomorphic and misc characters into their study. Like at some point in time a group of people came together and said; "Sorry, look, we can't include anything but humans at this point. Get rid of all the other data."

[QUOTE=Archimedes;38986988]I wonder if at any point the people compiling this data had to chose whether to include or exclude anthropomorphic and misc characters into their study. Like at some point in time a group of people came together and said; "Sorry, look, we can't include anything but humans at this point. Get rid of all the other data."[/QUOTE] I wonder what the percentage of furries to humans in second life is

Yeah it seems like with the furries in SL, even the guys show a lot of skin. :pwn:

[QUOTE=Archimedes;38986988]I wonder if at any point the people compiling this data had to chose whether to include or exclude anthropomorphic and misc characters into their study. Like at some point in time a group of people came together and said; "Sorry, look, we can't include anything but humans at this point. Get rid of all the other data."[/QUOTE] Well, this study of an online game with thousands of people playing it, only has a test group of 400 people. :v:

Hahaha who in their right mind would analyze second life for research? Seriously that world has gone so fucking weird its incredible. I mean for fucks sake look at this shit. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hMce6.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]HAHAHAHAHAHA Also, it's awkward enough that people do this in SL at all but when they actually do it with voice chat and have a real, live person talking them through a virtual birth and repeating "push push push", it just ramps the awkward up ten fold. I bet that person isn't even a real doctor either and doesn't actually know jack shit about the birthing process. I hope not, anyway. I strikes me as a little sick that a medical professional would ever do this in their free time.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DaDillsta;38987008]Yeah it seems like with the furries in SL, even the guys show a lot of [B]fur[/B]. :pwn:[/QUOTE] fix'd

it's a fucking game holy shit what the fuck

[QUOTE=DinoJesus;38987164]Hahaha who in their right mind would analyze second life for research? Seriously that world has gone so fucking weird its incredible.I mean for fucks sake look at this shit.[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hMce6.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]A friend of mine found an actual practicing church. I checked it out and they literally had people sitting and watching this one monotone guy preaching through his mic. At the time, it wasn't really funny but rather disturbing. It was just all these emotionless clean cut christian players just siting there staring blankly at the equally lifeless preacher.

[QUOTE=soccerskyman;38987253]A friend of mine found an actual practicing church. I checked it out and they literally had people sitting and watching this one monotone guy preaching through his mic. At the time, it wasn't really funny but rather disturbing. It was just all these emotionless clean cut christian players just siting there staring blankly at the equally lifeless preacher.[/QUOTE] this sounds like the basis for a really good or really shitty creepypasta.

[QUOTE=DinoJesus;38987164]Hahaha who in their right mind would analyze second life for research? Seriously that world has gone so fucking weird its incredible. I mean for fucks sake look at this shit. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hMce6.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] [quote] ouch lol [/quote] /quote

[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;38987209]it's a fucking game holy shit what the fuck[/QUOTE] Uh, games have proven to be helpful for research in the past This kind of research is a joke though, since of course females are gonna show more skin because fat females can just adjust their e-bodies to whatever they think is "hot" and so will dudes with female avatars, so of course they show more skin

Hey what's the freaky open source version of Second Life?

In Second Life I can express my true inner-self rrerr

[QUOTE=soccerskyman;38987253]A friend of mine found an actual practicing church. I checked it out and they literally had people sitting and watching this one monotone guy preaching through his mic. At the time, it wasn't really funny but rather disturbing. It was just all these emotionless clean cut christian players just siting there staring blankly at the equally lifeless preacher.[/QUOTE] Why would devout Christians be playing second life? I'd think it would be seen as the devil incarnate to them.

[QUOTE=Binge le mag;38987365]In Second Life I can express my true inner-self rrerr[/QUOTE] Did you know that "rrerr" isn't funny anymore?

[QUOTE]Virtual women reveal more polygons, regardless of body proportions.[/QUOTE] fixed

man, second life is fucking weird. it's sort of a perfect example of how you can give people the ability to do anything, and to make anything, and all they'll do and make is creepy sex things by a certain point. [QUOTE=DohEntertainmen;38987391]Did you know that "rrerr" isn't funny anymore?[/QUOTE] Eh, who named you Arbiter of All Which Is Humorous?

should have done a survey of people who play as what they are in real life. Results would have been more interesting. [editline]27th December 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=TMBGFan;38987491]man, second life is fucking weird. it's sort of a perfect example of how you can give people the ability to do anything, and to make anything, and all they'll do and make is creepy sex things by a certain point.[/QUOTE] Many yes but not all. [url]https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/13853?id=13853[/url] [url]https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/16072?id=16072[/url]

[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38987366]Why would devout Christians be playing second life? I'd think it would be seen as the devil incarnate to them.[/QUOTE] I actually used to go to some sort of youth group things on SL from time to time, I don't believe in any of it but it used to be interesting to at least listen to how crazy some of it was, though I acted in a respectful manner to all of the people running it. Also, most people assume all females in SL are guys at all times. It feels like the opposite to me. Most of the females are females I find, or at least definitely sound and look like them, problem is most of them are also in their 60's or if they're around my age they are extremely socially awkward. As sad as I feel saying this, I met one of my first real girlfriends through SL and we met up a few times and things were actually fairly normal so not everyone is a complete freak, not really into the whole scene anymore though.

Tits/Ass ratio.

[QUOTE=ac/14;38987497]should have done a survey of people who play as what they are in real life. Results would have been more interesting. [editline]27th December 2012[/editline] Many yes but not all. [url]https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/13853?id=13853[/url] [url]https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/16072?id=16072[/url][/QUOTE] Didn't even link yourself? Come on. [url]https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/25907?id=25907[/url]

[QUOTE=DaDillsta;38987695]Didn't even link yourself? Come on. [url]https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/25907?id=25907[/url][/QUOTE] Not a huge fan of self promotion :v:

[QUOTE=ac/14;38987726]Not a huge fan of self promotion :v:[/QUOTE] buying your fire and rezzing it in Curious is this a bad idea y/n

[QUOTE=World Eater;38987920]buying your fire and rezzing it in Curious is this a bad idea y/n[/QUOTE] It shouldn't spread unless the sim is setup to allow it. But shit sometimes happens.