Holy cow! These numbers are absolutely, brutally shocking to me. I honestly expected sports betting to be a small fraction of a percent of the general population, not t h i r t y—n i n e percent!! I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone I know IRL (Canada) even talk about sports betting, so this wasn’t on my radar at all. I was thinking of sports betting as some niche hobby by a few dedicated superfans, and definitely not something that over a third of the general population did last year.
Those raw numbers truly are a punch in the gut of my pre-existing worldview, hot damn. My initial reflex is that these numbers can’t possibly be real, nor the various charts talking about billions in “handles” and double-digit percent bankruptcies. But uh, I guess I’ll take your word for it. Holy shit, I’m reeling.
Holy cow! These numbers are absolutely, brutally shocking to me. I honestly expected sports betting to be a small fraction of a percent of the general population, not t h i r t y—n i n e percent!! I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone I know IRL (Canada) even talk about sports betting, so this wasn’t on my radar at all. I was thinking of sports betting as some niche hobby by a few dedicated superfans, and definitely not something that over a third of the general population did last year.
Those raw numbers truly are a punch in the gut of my pre-existing worldview, hot damn. My initial reflex is that these numbers can’t possibly be real, nor the various charts talking about billions in “handles” and double-digit percent bankruptcies. But uh, I guess I’ll take your word for it. Holy shit, I’m reeling.