Speech at 9th European Conference on Gambling Studies and Policy.
The author:
– points out that inadequacy of current research on online gambling;
– analyses from different points of view representativeness limits of samples adopted in online gambling research, that are often formed by regular and frequent gamblers and do not proportionally represent occasional and infrequent gamblers;
– exhorts to be cautious aiming to avoid a superficial interpretation of prevalence data, as most part of online gamblers are actually “also” online gamblers, i.e. they gamble both online and offline
– proposes new readings, more favourable to online gambling results of research performed by CIRMPA in 2010, that compares overall gambling and online gambling;
– highlights potential power of database owned by the Italian regulator A.A.M.S., which holds the nominative, analytic and complete gambling history of each single player and recommends to exploit the value of such unique data base through the development of risk behaviour models and behaviour tracking tools.
See the slides:
G Carboni_Measures of prevalence of online problem gambling_09202012Loutraki_ EAGS Convention