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The conclusion? It's not exactly "Sexist gamers suck," but that's not far off. Essentially, the data showed that crappy players were more likely to be hostile toward a woman, particularly when they were losing, and that in a similar situation with the male control player, they'd be "submissive."Skilled gamers, meanwhile, were typically nice to the female player. The study suggests that since the high status of good players is not in jeopardy either way, good players have nothing to gain by being dicks, while poor players are being dicks in order to preserve their status.Now, it's worth pointing out that it's too soon to call these results totally conclusive when Halo 3 is the only gaming ecosystem that's been tested. Also, the experiment didn't record any data on the gamers' ages, marital statuses, and other demographic information that might be relevant.It also centered on impulsive utterances, which are one of the faces of sexism, to be sure, but it's not clear what that has to do with the other, more insidious, systematic forms of sexism that may or may not be floating around in the gaming world.Follow Mike Pearl on Twitter.Read: 'E.T.' Boiled My Blood: Testing the Stressfulness of the World's Worst Video Game