| Posted by: MJackson at June 28, 2008, 5:16 am | | Topic: Barney's Anti-UIGEA bill defeated Forum: Casino Meister | | Actually he did go on later to cite one study that I couldn't find anywhere claiming that a third of teen compulsive gamblers commit suicide and another saying that online gambling among college students had decreased by 75% since the UIGEA (highly doubtful). If you could find these studies you could explain to him that correlation doesn't imply causation but it doesn't do any good if the study doesn't exist. That's not to mention the points CM made in another post recently about the benefits of regulation etc. Quote: A study by McGill University found that nearly one-third of teenage compulsive gamblers attempted suicide. Couldn't find it. I did find the other one he referred to. Quote: Weekly use of the Internet for gambling among college-age youth also declined, going from 5.8 percent in 2006 to 1.5 percent in 2007, a statistically significant drop. Use of the Internet among high school-aged male youth was already very low in 2006 and did not change this year, going from 0 percent to 0.8 percent. No word on methodology but this was a survey and the jump from 0 to .8 percent was considered statistically insignificant. Also no word on when this survey was taken and thus how long the poker rooms had time to work out the new payment kinks. Obviously there would have been a precipitous drop in the months immediately following the UIGEA's passage and the Neteller incident. That aside, without proving a net adverse effect when comparing regulation with prohibition the point about the 75% decline, even if true, has no merit. |
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