I really don't get how people can go so long without running into a female gamer...boggles the effin mind.  I literally went to Blizzcon w/ my Guild Master from WoW last year (and we're going again this year) lol.  My world would be lesser without good folks like her around.

Like I said earlier in this thread I do believe wow's population to have a large number of females in it, at a point during pandaria we raided with 4 girls on a 10 man team. That's "hardcore" raiding btw endgame mythic stuff, not just bouncing around goldshire pet battling like some people seem to think girl gamers do :D

of course you always have the models bringing the side down!

http://weknowmemes.com/2012/12/video-game-models-are-so-bad-they/

I think your personal bias are influencing it a bit. You may not know many, but you don't realize how small 5% is.

It doesn't matter how hardcore the gamer is, because the percentage of "hardcore gamers" on a consoles is a small number. Being on a sales site, I'd hope most would see that.

This is an American survey only. I do not  ever see big surveys done and largely reported on for other countries.

might be the crowds they hang around with

Does the study provide what definition they used for gamer?

When they say "social" games do they mean mobile (I-phone, Android etc. or something else)

I woud bet the statisics would be very different in both total numbers and  percentages if Mobile gaming was considered seprate from console and PC gaming

In my observation/experience/opinion there are alot of people that play mobile games that have rarely if ever played console games 

THere are many  I-Pads and similar owned by paretns and grandparents that play few if any games on them but have kids/grandkids that do play games on them-  

It would be interesting to know how they gathered the data

these statistics should be taken with a grain of salt. they usually count games like candy crush and online poker

I really don't know! But, honestly, I'm not very good talking with females in general (yeah, shyness). So I suppose that it's logical that I haven't met a lot of female gamers lol. When I was playing WoW (I quit, it was like a drug... :P ) it's true there were a lot of female players in the guild (at least they said they were females haha), but I've never actually met them so, I don't know.

I'm 15.guess I'm a minority lol

Hmmm.... social games? That is quite odd... oh well. At least the gender gap isn't as bad as I thought.