That is not how addiction works
Yeah, I failed to consider that.
It isn’t?
In my school it was.
They also taught us the effects of smoking. People still smoked.
Counter point: Tesla was a gambling addict in university.
Logic and Reasoning as well.
Part of the reason we learn mathematics is to develop logic and reasoning skills. Unfortunately Americans tend to practically brag about being mathematically illiterate.
It was in my school.
People that gamble are mostly the students that didn’t pay attention in class anyway.
Smart people only ‘gamble’ when the rules benefits them.
Used to be a lottery game dev, now I’m in addition.
This suggestion would do nothing since compulsive behavior is not a choice and it is not rational.
Wanna bet?
I like those odds.
**Chef’s kiss
Nah, monkey brain would still think “THIS time I’ll win for sure!”
I don’t think you understand addiction and it’s causes if you think it can be mitigated by education alone.
The issue with substance abuse isn’t that people don’t know that nicotine, alcohol or methamphetamine is wildly addictive.
Yeah, it’s common knowledge that the house has an advantage, and they will eventually take all of your money if you continue playing. A doctoral degree is not required,
Probability and statistics are part of the high school math curriculum for the majority of students in California and we have our share of compulsive gamblers. Just because a person knows something doesn’t make sense does not assure they won’t do it.
Anti-drug education is in schools and people still do it
IDK, I think we’ve seen adequate evidence that a lot of people out there are unswayed by facts and logic, and many of the ones who can be reasoned with are vulnerable to sophistry, sealioning, and other bad faith propaganda/debate techniques.
Uhm, it is…
Can’t wait to gamble today. Literally shaking. That’s called dedication. Buddy, I’ve been gambling everyday for 20+ years. It’s all I think about and I still haven’t gotten addicted so I doubt it’s happening.
Not as much as you think.
It wasn’t until graduate level statistics until we got into how to tear down bad stats as part of understanding how to make good stats.
Like, even for people who took regular college level statistical analysis, the hardest part of it is still keeping you bias out.
Teach a bunch of high schoolers stats, and they’re gonna think they’re smarter than a gambling app. That leads to more people trying it, and naturally more people getting hooked.
You’re thinking of it as innoculation when it’s more like the first hit for free…
My brother took intro to counselling, diagnosed himself as suffering with Special Boy disease, everyone else in the family with Evil Syndrome and went off the deep end into a full public mental breakdown, from which our relationship has never recovered.
You mean my estranged sister
Reminds me of psych 101 - much of the class thought they had something.
the best way to decrease it is to limit or avoid exposure to gambling until mid 20s when the brain is more likely to be developed.
Considering most videogames have been dopamine hacked with lootcrates and similar. Just like lemmy’s feed, random searching leading to stochastic rewards trigger our hunter gatherer neuro-circuitry the same way gambling does.
No one matures without being tweaked by the more conservative amish and global super-poor.
Sounds a lot like antivacxers screeching everyone gets chickenpox…
Username doesn’t check out. Read up on dopamine hacking then get back to me.
