Author: joseph (jhay) (Page 4 of 7)

This year saw the start of online betting being legal here in New York and already many close friends and family to me have started betting on games through their phones or tablets. Recently one of my friends nearly fell deep into this gambling addiction and it’s barely been three months since it’s been accesible on your phone to bet on any major sport. Luckliy he was smart enough to stop and is recovering at the moment. So this has led to my curoisty sparking and I wonder, how do people fall into gambling addiction? I ride the train often since gas prices are up and I don’t want to drive. Nowadays there are big screens that show ads on the subway platforms. I occasionally look at one and there is always an ad promoting a betting app. This has been more frequent in the last three months since it was introduced and allowed in New York in the beginning of the year. I scroll on social media watching sport highlights on a sports page, and they would also post a bet where a person bet a few bucks to win a few thousand. They always highlight the fact you could gamble anywhere from ten to twenty-five dollars to win a few hundred or even thousand. But that’s how it starts, you bet small and hit the jackpot once. That one win seems to fuel many people to increase the bet thinking they could keep it going till they eventually are in deep pockets. I don’t want to necessarily blame any ads on apps, but now that betting is accessible through an app on your phone makes betting easy for anyone. You can bet on anything as well nowdays. This past years Super Bowl, I remember seeing on Twitter that 25% of America bet on the Super Bowl. That’s around 82 million Americans putting money on the line betting on things like who’s going to win the coin toss to what color is the winning gatorade splash going to be. My father bets, but he bets smartly and every once in a while. There’s no need to bet on each basketball game or every football game on Sundays. But there is a psychology behind to those who fall in deep. It becomes an addiciton like any other drug and it’s dangerous since it could affect your life. The gambling addiciton has been said to affect you badly that you turn to other drug addicitons to help you cope with the stress and emotions that comes with the negative consequences to gambling your money away.

• “When we understand research as a process of discovery rather than a process of proof, we open ourselves up to be changed by our research—to better our lives, our decisions, and our world. We acknowledge that we do not have the only or the best answer to every question, and that we might learn something from considering the ideas of others.” (pg 233, second paragraph) This quote teaches the reader that you should research your topic with an open mind to discover facts rather than finding proof of ones opinion.
• “Viewing research as a process of discovery allows us to accept that not every question is answerable and that questions sometimes lead only to more questions.” (pg 233, third paragraph)  This quote let’s me know that even as you researc, you might not be able to find your answer and that researching might lead to you asking many more questions than originally thought.
• “Although our culture would tell us that we have to know everything, and that we should even begin a research project by knowing the answer to our question, there is obvious value in using research as a tool to engage our curiosity and sense of wonder as human beings—perhaps even to improve our lives or the lives of others.” (pg 234, second paragraph)  This quote is telling the reader that you may think you have the answer to a question you have, there is still a positive outcome of researching a certain topic and it is the most imporant tool to answer our curiosity.