Online Casino Gambling Ediction
UK Online Casino Gambling Problem Examination Finds Uncommon Online Casino Gambling Results
A new survey in the UK contradicts studies about online casinos by well-respected, impartial sources, leading readers to wonder about possible hidden agendas.
A new study of online casinos and their patrons funded by the UK Gambling Commission has returned drastically different results than other scientific surveys from around the world. Curiosity at results which change radically from many other studies, including reports from Harvard Medical School, the government of South Africa, and the National Council on Problem Gambling, guided some gaming experts to question about the impartiality of the project’s authors.
The report, using figures from the British Gambling Prevalence Study, determines that problem gambling is ten times more prominent among online casino gambling sponsors than among gamblers who use land-based gaming. However, Dr. Howard Shaffer of Harvard Med found, after a two-year study, that Internet gambling had a lower rate of problem gambling than land-based casinos.
Professor Dan Rose of the National Responsible Gambling Program of South Africa also found unpredictable results in that online gambling figures showed less problem gambling than land casinos. Keith Whyte of the US National Council on Problem Gambling says that studies show no variance in compulsive gambling figures between online gambling or land-based gaming, loose laws or prohibition.
The UK survey was led by Dr. Mark Griffiths, in collaboration with Professor Jim Orford.
“This study’s findings suggest that the medium of the Internet may be more likely to contribute to problem gambling than gambling in offline environments,” Dr. Griffiths remarked to EGamingReview. However, a review of the British scientists’ backgrounds exposes potential bias, and a need for noble assessment of the study’s mathematical composition. Dr. Griffiths is well known for rejecting the theory of addictive character, in which it is not the essence leading to the problem but a mental disturbance common to all abuse matters, even though a great deal of studies suggested that addictive behavior intersects categories and may be related to dopamine production.
Professor Orford declared two years ago he was searching for allies for his new organization, StopGam, to stop the liberalisation of gambling laws and the broaden of gambling in the UK.
The research’s correctness has yet to be concluded, but a publication by two scientists who evidently have presumptions before testing needs to be comprehensively investigated before approval.
