TRC #312: Gamer Stats – Adult Women Vs Teenage Boys + Deer + Puff The Magic Dragon Is About Pot?

puff-dragon-sizedEpisode 312 is all that and more!  First Adam frags some headlines claiming that adult women gamers outnumber teenage boy gamers.   Next Pat hunts for the facts to answer a listener’s questions about deer.  Lastly Darren clears the smoke on whether Puff The Magic Dragon is about marijuana.

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SHOW NOTES

Adult Women Gamers Outnumber Teenage Boy Gamers

Women significantly outnumber teenage boys in gamer demographics – PBS

2014 Sales, Demographics, and Usage Data – Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry – Entertainment Software Association

Nearly identical previous usage data:

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_ef_2013.pdf

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_ef_2012.pdf

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_ef_2011.pdf

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_essential_facts_2010.pdf

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_ef_2009.pdf

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_ef_2008.pdf

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_ef_2007.pdf

http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_ef_2006.pdf

https://www.unrankedsmurfs.com/images/upload/pdf/ESA_EF_2014.pdf

Gender split of U.S. computer and video gamers 2014 – statista

Age and Sex Composition: 2010

Boston requests bomb checks, bathroom tweaks for PAX East – Polygon

Deer

Wikipedia: Deer-Vehicle Collisions

Wikipedia: White Tailed Deer

How Stuff Works: Counting Deer Populations

Large Predators Limit Herbivore Densities

Insurance Journal: Cost of Deer Collisions

Car and Driver: Avoid Deer Collisions

Geico Insurance: Deer Safety

NY Times: Deer in Headlights

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

Wikipedia: Crepuscular

Puff The Magic Dragon

Snopes

 

 

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1 Response to TRC #312: Gamer Stats – Adult Women Vs Teenage Boys + Deer + Puff The Magic Dragon Is About Pot?

  1. Reddit says:

    Everything I knew about Puff The Magic Dragon was a lie….

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