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Home History Games News Dictionary		continued from Loto-Quebec Defends Position - 1 Loto-Quebec was quick to retaliate, looking at the study for themselves and drawing a few conclusions of their own in defense of legalization. For one, Dr Griffith did not support the suppositions made by health officials at all, in fact, his summaries included factors that instead sheds more than a little doubt on making permanent conclusions. For example, Griffiths acknowledged that he only had 2,500 participants, certainly not enough people to be a true reflection of all of Svenska Spel’s customer base. The Loto-Quebec statement says that because the slice doesn’t represent the whole pie, it is unfair to draw conclusions on the percentage of the whole clientele that are problem gamblers, or that are new players. "It is therefore incorrect to assume that 52 percent of Svenska Spel players who play only on that Swedish site are new players,” the defense statement read, courtesy of Loto-Quebec. "In addition, Dr. Griffiths believes that a linear relationship cannot necessarily be established between accessibility, increased numbers of players and the increase in problem gamblers. The framework for social responsibility measures implemented when gaming is introduced must be taken into account. Sweden is a good example, where the prevalence rate remained stable, before and after the introduction of online poker, at about 0.6 percent.” They also provided their own documentation that showed that state-run online gambling sites actually see a much smaller demographic of problem gamblers than offshore and privatized firms. Ironically, the data also came from a Swedish commission. That study showed that in 2008, following the inquiry of 2,000 poker players, the percentage of players who regularly frequented ‘other sites’ had a deeper perversion of addiction to gambling than did those who played on Svenska Spel’s site. In fact more than three times as bad: those who only used the monopoly’s services only saw a 3 percent issue, while ‘other sites’ had 11 percent of bettors admitting to a problem.

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Loto-Quebec was quick to retaliate, looking at the study for themselves and drawing a few conclusions of their own in defense of legalization. For one, Dr Griffith did not support the suppositions made by health officials at all, in fact, his summaries included factors that instead sheds more than a little doubt on making permanent conclusions. For example, Griffiths acknowledged that he only had 2,500 participants, certainly not enough people to be a true reflection of all of Svenska Spel’s customer base. The Loto-Quebec statement says that because the slice doesn’t represent the whole pie, it is unfair to draw conclusions on the percentage of the whole clientele that are problem gamblers, or that are new players.

"It is therefore incorrect to assume that 52 percent of Svenska Spel players who play only on that Swedish site are new players,” the defense statement read, courtesy of Loto-Quebec. "In addition, Dr. Griffiths believes that a linear relationship cannot necessarily be established between accessibility, increased numbers of players and the increase in problem gamblers. The framework for social responsibility measures implemented when gaming is introduced must be taken into account. Sweden is a good example, where the prevalence rate remained stable, before and after the introduction of online poker, at about 0.6 percent.”

They also provided their own documentation that showed that state-run online gambling sites actually see a much smaller demographic of problem gamblers than offshore and privatized firms. Ironically, the data also came from a Swedish commission. That study showed that in 2008, following the inquiry of 2,000 poker players, the percentage of players who regularly frequented ‘other sites’ had a deeper perversion of addiction to gambling than did those who played on Svenska Spel’s site. In fact more than three times as bad: those who only used the monopoly’s services only saw a 3 percent issue, while ‘other sites’ had 11 percent of bettors admitting to a problem.