The gaming industry, say researchers, has both the data and the analytics to identify problem gamblers early, and to stop them from becoming addicts. But few casinos, they say, are making use of the new science.
The gambling data comes from two sources: Casino's own loyalty programs, which record customers' betting behavior to award points redeemable for drinks, free hotel stays and other perks; and from Internet gaming companies that capture every keystroke every time a bettor bets.
Bwin, the biggest online betting company, partnered in 2005 with the Cambridge Health Alliance, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, to create an early warning system to identify problem gamblers.
Sarah Nelson, Ph.D., associate director for research for the Alliance's division on addiction and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical, tells ABC News that Bwin made available for study huge amounts of data on Internet sports gamblers.
Would it not be great if they could create such a system to create an early warning system to identify "problem POLITICIANS." Machine readings might be ..... :
TMS - Too much spending
CUP - Conduct Unbecoming a Politician
DEI - Don't expose yourself on the Internet
NAYM - No affairs, you are married
YDSW - Yes, you did have sex with that woman
OSIS - Oral sex is sex
YAL - You are lying
SIB - Stealing is Bad
YAS - YOU are stealing
DGT - Don't go to the Theatre (Should have been around for Abe)
YASB - You are a scumbag
YUAFONETM - You are using AFOne too much
JSDK - Just say you don't know
WBD - We are broke, dammit
