What percentage of people are addicted to the lottery?
Question by Thinking: What percentage of people are addicted to the lottery?
I’m doing a debate about the lottery, and I need to find what percentage of people that play the lottery are addicted. There are too many search results and I won’t have time to read them all. Can anybody help me?
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Answer by pdq
I would argue for close 100%.
The lottery is the WORST bet anyone can possibly make. Spending any more than a dollar is moronic. To actually do this willingly is a sign of ignorance and desperation.
Here’s something for your research, and you can verify this without much work. Lottery companies only pay back 50% of every dollar they take in. Again, anyone who thinks it may be profitable to play a game with a 50% payback rate is spending WAY more than what is sane and reasonable.
I doubt its close to 100%….
Most of the people I know that play were in a lottery pool at work… if the person didn’t come around to collect each week, they wouldn’t bother. They’d only play on their own if it the jackpot got really big. Hard to consider them addicted.
But there is no real way to answer your question. No one is going to know that.
From a gambling addiction standpoint lotteries are the LEAST addictive game you can play, because the frequency that happens of it is not so frequent as you can win/lose with other games like roulette or card games that can be repeated over and over again in a short period of time. The “kick” that you get out of winning a lottery is not so instanenous – it involves usually a pretty long waiting time. There were even court decicions recently in Germany about the Gaming laws there in regards to state lotteries and it was ruled that lotteries are not having such a high potential for gambling problems as any other gambling products offered.