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383 points toomuchtodo | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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brettgriffin ◴[31 Oct 25 19:05 UTC] No.45775525[source]▶
The problem isn't the 70M people who placed bets, its the ~25M with broken risk aversion.

These are mostly men, and a very specific type of men. You can try to curtail their access to gambling but we're missing the underlying problem.

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1. danielmarkbruce ◴[31 Oct 25 22:41 UTC] No.45777504[source]▶
I believe there are studies which show men are more likely to have problems with sports betting, but women are with slot machines. My anecdotal evidence (and it's bordering on statistically significant...) is that these studies are correct.