View Full Version : Online Gamblers
karlskorner
04-03-2002, 08:01 AM
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/16814.html
GR1@HTR
04-03-2002, 08:36 AM
I assume they surveyed sports betters (football, baseball etc...). Now the question is are horse betters and sports betters the same breed?
ranchwest
04-03-2002, 11:23 AM
Read it carefully. I'd lay odds that the sample size is too small.
anotherdave
04-03-2002, 12:12 PM
Originally posted by ranchwest
Read it carefully. I'd lay odds that the sample size is too small.
The sample size may be ok, but the sampling design seems flawed. I don't get why they are sampling free and low cost dental clinics. If they sampled the general public randomly, they would get a sample more representative of the population. What they are estimating (I guess) is the proportion of people who have bad teeth and are poor that gamble. As a statistician, I can't quite figure out what they are doing. That is like asking people at wrestling match if they like opera. What does it prove?
AD
ranchwest
04-03-2002, 12:55 PM
"Of that total, only 31, or 8 percent, admitted to gambling on the Internet, and 14 of those said they gambled at least once a week.
Though they were a minority, 74 percent of those who admitted to gambling online were found to have gambling behaviors classified as 'problematic' or 'pathological.' Just 22 percent of those studied without online gambling experience were found to have the more serious gambling problems. "
-------
74% of 31 is only 23 people.
23 people who seek free dental care reveal to the nation that people who gamble online are more likely to have a gambling problem than people without online experience.
What correlations can you draw from this? That people who want free dentists have more hangups than people who have no computer skills? What?
anotherdave
04-03-2002, 01:00 PM
I can't believe the article got published from what was reported.
AD
BillW
04-03-2002, 01:16 PM
This appears to be a case of not allowing facts to interfere with a good story.
Even Fox news has to remind us that their news coverage is "fair and balanced" (because they know that there is no way a reasonably intelligent viewer could recognize that for theirself).
Internet news sources aren't held to such high standards, i.e. they aren't obligated to tell us how to evaluate the quality of their reporting.:rolleyes:
Bill
anotherdave
04-03-2002, 01:19 PM
I can believe it got on the internet. I just can't believe the journal published it.
AD
vBulletin® v3.8.9, Copyright ©2000-2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.