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Originally Posted by clicknow
Basically, glorified skinner boxes.
(A Skinner box, also known as an operant conditioning chamber, is an enclosed apparatus that contains a bar or key that an animal can press or manipulate in order to obtain food or water as a type of reinforcement.) In the partial reinforcement schedules, some pigeons receive a pellet after they peck at the key five times. This is known as a fixed-ratio schedule. Pigeons in another group receive reinforcement after a random number of responses, which is known as a variable-ratio schedule. Still, more pigeons are given a pellet after a 10 minute period has elapsed. This is called a fixed-interval schedule. In the final group, pigeons are given reinforcement at random intervals of time.)
King ... creators of Candy Crush, employs Ph.D. Psychologists whose specialty is addiction. 
Really no comparison to horse racing. Horse racing not going to go away for same reason crossword puzzles don't. Some people like to do their studying and figuring out a good puzzle.
It takes knowledge and work to analyze horse racing data. |
Horse racing will always exist in some form, but it's not going to be a mainstream thing again. Much like Wrestling, the Harlem Globetrotters, Roller Derby and so forth. They exist, they can be found, but their glory days are long gone.
The average age of people who gamble on it or go to races is old. Millenials and Gen Z are just not as interested and I don't see any way that can be changed.
The media also has it out for horse racing, which is another major hurdle.
