Edit: I’ve read all of your comments. I see now that you’re right and man that’s depressing.
That is not how addiction works
Yeah, I failed to consider that.
no worries. if addiction were more rational, it would be a lot easier to treat.
It isn’t?
In my school it was.
They also taught us the effects of smoking. People still smoked.
Counter point: Nikola Tesla was a gambling addict in university.
Wanna bet?
I like those odds.
**Chef’s kiss
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,
Used to be a lottery game dev, now I’m in addiction.
This suggestion would do nothing since compulsive behavior is not a choice and it is not rational.
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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.
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.
Even an informed public seems incapable of making good decisions.
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
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…
Quick edit:
It’s like how med students think they know more than every doctor they’ve ever seen and diagnosis themselves with a bunch of shit
A little bit of knowledge mixed with teenage confidence and an undeveloped brain doesn’t always result in a positive.
So with something as addictive as gambling, 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.
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 mechanics almost no one is avoiding this until their 20s. Just like lemmy’s feed: random searching leading to stochastic rewards trigger our hunter gatherer neuro-circuitry the same way gambling does, little hits of dopamine to reward us for searching.
No one matures without being tweaked neurologically, except the more conservative amish and global super-poor who never touch casinos or technology.
Edit for clarity
Sounds a lot like antivacxers screeching everyone gets chickenpox…
Username doesn’t check out. Read up on dopamine hacking then get back to me.
Uhm, it is…
Nah, monkey brain would still think “THIS time I’ll win for sure!”
You guys don’t learn probabilities??
Sometimes I wonder if the problem isn’t the content we cover, but the content people remember. Then again it could just be different districts.
90% of the time we do, but sadly 32% of us don’t because they’re lazy and refuse to give 110% at school. 💯
They don’t even teach civics, or how to do taxes. And there’s a constant push from a vocal minority to do less and teach young earth creationism. It’s very stupid here.
Gotta disagree. In my economics/government (civics) class back in the 90s in high school in statesia (they split it, one semester is one, one semester is the other for senior social studies) in April you did taxes. Just an average bay area public high school that was worried about losing all of ours programs except football to budget cuts
Taxes is a combination of a 3rd grade reading level and 3rd grade arithmetic. It literally directs you where to get the values for each box and the most complicated math you have to do is basic addition, subtraction, or multiplication.
Teaching a person how to fill out a 1040 is a complete waste of time especially considering they likely won’t need to fill one out for several years and teaching people all the obscure possible forms is pointless as the tax code changes and it’s only applicable to a small fraction of the class and likely not for 5+ years
I was going to respond by then I checked your overview. You’re a dick. Blocked.
We (at least used to) learn basic probabilities and averages (mean median, mode) in grade school. Maybe a little about distributions and deviations in the upper grades, but not greater statistical analysis unless you are in college prep courses.
