Gambling Age Canada

by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
June 27, 2006

Gambling Age:

Gambling can be a form of entertainment if handled with caution and right attitude. A good approach is to aim to win but to also be prepared to lose and lose only the amount you planned to risk on that day. In other words, you have to accept the fact that you cannot force a winning outcome and you cannot win every time. The casinos have an in-built mathematical advantage on virtually every game. On the other hand, the player practically makes all the playing decisions including when to quit. Depending how players make those decisions will determine their future.

Facts related to Gambling and Age:

Cohen (1957) found that the conformance of subjects’ statistical predictions to statistical reality increased, roughly, with age. These statistical predictions did not, though, come to exactly fit real world probabilities for those in even the oldest groups studied. Botwinicik (1969) contributed some data that may increase our understanding of the relationship between age and risk taking. He found that, in comparison to young adults, his elderly subjects chose options that were not less risky when they were forced to take risks. However, when the option to avoid the risk altogether was available, it was selected by a significantly greater number of the elderly. There would appear to be implications of these findings for the casinos. Griffiths (1989) provides us with the following summary of their findings: "Up to about ten years old, the children believed money could be made from gambling, but from the age of ten onwards, they believed money is usually lost from gambling and only won under special circumstances".

Legal Age:

Based on above studies Policy makers decide from what should be the age of client before permitting her or him to gambling houses. In Canada minimum age is 19 before a person is allowed in Casinos. But you are allowed to play Bingo if you are 18 year old. Internet Gambling due to its inherent nature has attracted young population. Younger people less than 19 year of age are also on-line gamblers.

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