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Our Virtual Bodies, Ourselves?

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Next, we'll take a look at character attractiveness. Again, it makes sense that when given the choice, most people would prefer to be on the above average side in terms of attractiveness. There was a substantial gender difference though. Men were about equally split between the average and attractive choices, while women were twice as likely to prefer the attractive choice. This helps to partly explain an earlier data point on why women were more likely to pick Night Elves than men in World of Warcraft. We'll delve into this issue more in the next section of data on specific body types.

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