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Nelson: "The next question: is Internet gambling particularly addictive?" #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: For more heavily involved poker players, they examined betting behavior - generally the top 1 %of total wagered & loss #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: "Results show problem gambling is not as common among Internet gambling as speculations & conventional wisdom suggests" #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: "With the bets per day, you're not seeing large amounts of bets or frequent bets with these players" #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: In their sample, bets per betting day were about 2.5 bets per day for fixed odds, 2.8 bets per day for live action. #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: In their research, sports betters were on average 31 years old, poker players were on average 30 years old #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: All of the samples were primarily male. Poker players were more likely to be male. #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: 59 %of the sample made both fixed odds and live action bets. #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: Other type of betting is a live action bet - bets are made on propositions of outcomes within a sporting event. #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: There were two types of bets made: 1) Fixed odds bets - bets made on the outcome of a sporting event or game #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: Data set looked at sports betting and some poker players for more than 40,000 gamblers that subscribed to bwin.party #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: We'll look @ these Qs 1) who gambles on the internet? 2) what patterns of play? 3) is Internet Gambling addictive? #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: They determined that in order to truly study #internet gambling, they needed to study the actual betting behavior #NCRGWebinar
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Nelson: About 10 years ago, little research was done on #internet gambling. #NCRGWebinar
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Christine Reilly is now introducing Dr. Sarah Nelson from the Division on Addiction research @Harvard #NCRGWebinar
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Feldman: Dr. Sarah Nelson will give us information about actual gambling behavior - not self-reported data #NCRGWebinar
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#NCRGWebinar Alan Feldman, NCRG chairman, introducing the webinar series and the session "Science vs. Myth: Research on Internet Gambling"
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Can we reach 400 followers by the end of our webinar? We hope so!
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The NCRG Webinar will also include presentations from the NCRG's Alan Feldman and Christine Reilly #NCRGWebinar
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Less than 10 minutes away from the NCRG webinar: "Science vs. Myth: Research on Internet Gambling" Stay tuned for more from Dr. Sarah Nelson
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The first 2012 session of the NCRG Webinar Series starts in 30 minutes! Stay tuned to #NCRGWebinar for more!
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We're about an hour away from the NCRG's first webinar of 2012! Can't make it to the session? Follow the hashtag #NCRGWebinar for more!
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