Ever thought of doing your thesis on Gambling ?

[traderethereum]

Maybe if gambling was allowed in my country and not a taboo subject to research.
I think it would be an interesting thesis to research very many things that we can research around gambling ranging from gambling addiction, the amount of money used, the time to gamble and so on.
Maybe gambling addiction will be an interesting topic to research because this problem has become a serious problem in some countries.
But maybe we will find it difficult to find a correspondent with whom we will interview because we have to visit a casino and maybe play for a while to be able to find the right person to interview.

[Gozie51]

I think that will be a very rigorous thesis to do to and it will cost alot of money.  To do that it must take alot of hard work that will judiciously put in the research because gambling is a very wide area. Gambling is all about sports and habit put together not taking away the gambling houses like the casinos. Therefore, it will mean a whole lot of sound research talking about different games, attitude of players, game houses, role of blockchain in gambling , scam etc to mention few areas and a whole lot of what you can think of.

Sure there are huge data of topics to select from in doing a gambling thesis

And the new side of it is gambling with cryptocurrency and it effect or defects if any.

[joeperry]

For € 2,500 why not? I think it could be a good help also for people who are studying gambling addiction, however it is not my field and this thesis is way more different from what I have in the University where I graduated (since it is a different field). The study might probably have uses for them that's why they rewarded him.

[Mauser]

Doing a thesis in gambling to find out that loot boxes are unethical?  I think every sane person would agree with that. I encountered many times of loot boxes in online games and none of them were worth their money. Back in the days you would pay 50$ for a game and that be it, you had a full game and didn't need anything else. Maybe after 1-2 years there would be an add on coming out but that is it, no need to spend anymore money. In todays world there are so many alternative pricing methods which is really sad. I know guys who justify spending 500-1000 USD in a single game per year to get some different cosmetics and skins. All of them are hidden behind loot boxes with a drop chance of 1-5%. You need to buy so many of those boxes to get what u actually want it's really sad. And the addiction behind is more OCD than gambling addiction because its about to get all the rare things in a game. It's like being a perfectionist for skins in a computer game.

[Boristhecat]

If I were doing research in gambling, it would rather be research in mathematics (including AI) or something similar (tangible), but not this empty demagogy about ethics.

Does even AI works in gambling ? AI may work on sports betting where you have some date to analysis but in casino gambling, even an AI and/or a robot will fail to come up with any meaningful results.
By the way, i never heard of thesis on Gambling , although thesis on AI video games is a completely different thing.

In addition to betting, there is also poker. As far as I know, the AI already plays better there than humans almost everywhere except for no-limit hold'em (although I have not been interested in current news for a long time, so maybe the AI is already better in every discipline). Probably all counting games (poker, blackjack, etc.) are good for AI, but such as dice or roulette are meaningless, since nothing depends on the player. But even in these types of gambling - sports betting, poker and other things, the work of AI is very interesting, since this is not the usual calculation of moves like in chess, but work with probabilities.

[Saisher]

It's not easy to take a thesis, especially in gambling if you don't have knowledge about gamblers and gambling you have to talk to and interview a lot of gamblers and their environment whether they are playing online or offline, but with that huge amount it's worth it, students are good in creating thesis even if it's not their subject of interest because they know how to study any fields as they are students, they have the time and aggressive in finding the cause and effect.

[bilal_jan321]

It would be quite interesting and I am sure there must be already a number of scientific studies around gambling. I am sure the casinos have requested and financed this type of works, just like McDonalds has perfect knowledge of the views of its clients and has carefully designed all the products. I think the field is certainly still open with the gambling on-line to economic, psicological or other studies.

Casinos want more people to gamble and spend more time in gambling for obvious reasons. A lot of research has already done on gambling and there is a concent world wide that its an addiction and should only be done by moderators and that too in moderation. Just dont spend too much on gambling, most take it fun but end up in anxiety.

[KTChampions]

Doing a thesis in gambling to find out that loot boxes are unethical?  I think every sane person would agree with that. I encountered many times of loot boxes in online games and none of them were worth their money. Back in the days you would pay 50$ for a game and that be it, you had a full game and didn't need anything else. Maybe after 1-2 years there would be an add on coming out but that is it, no need to spend anymore money. In todays world there are so many alternative pricing methods which is really sad. I know guys who justify spending 500-1000 USD in a single game per year to get some different cosmetics and skins. All of them are hidden behind loot boxes with a drop chance of 1-5%. You need to buy so many of those boxes to get what u actually want it's really sad. And the addiction behind is more OCD than gambling addiction because its about to get all the rare things in a game. It's like being a perfectionist for skins in a computer game.

As long as we regard loot box buyers as healthy adults who decide how they spend their money, loot boxes are completely ethical. Is not it? I know people who spent about three monthly salaries on games (on a mobile phone) (I say this to understand the scale, since prices are different in different countries) and this was without any loot boxes. I think if they are happy with the purchase, then why not? It is their right to make such spending and the right of developers to come up with different ways to monetize.

[carlfebz2]

Doing a thesis in gambling to find out that loot boxes are unethical?  I think every sane person would agree with that. I encountered many times of loot boxes in online games and none of them were worth their money. Back in the days you would pay 50$ for a game and that be it, you had a full game and didn't need anything else. Maybe after 1-2 years there would be an add on coming out but that is it, no need to spend anymore money. In todays world there are so many alternative pricing methods which is really sad. I know guys who justify spending 500-1000 USD in a single game per year to get some different cosmetics and skins. All of them are hidden behind loot boxes with a drop chance of 1-5%. You need to buy so many of those boxes to get what u actually want it's really sad. And the addiction behind is more OCD than gambling addiction because its about to get all the rare things in a game. It's like being a perfectionist for skins in a computer game.

As long as we regard loot box buyers as healthy adults who decide how they spend their money, loot boxes are completely ethical. Is not it? I know people who spent about three monthly salaries on games (on a mobile phone) (I say this to understand the scale, since prices are different in different countries) and this was without any loot boxes. I think if they are happy with the purchase, then why not? It is their right to make such spending and the right of developers to come up with different ways to monetize.

Dont know on why people do really love to blame up things which the things had been happening can really be blamed towards their actions.If they do really spend up their money on that way then its not really

our business but there are really people who are really that mindful towards other actions and things that had been done without even trying to realize that its their god damn right on how
they would really be using their money.Its none of our business if they would really be messing out their lives because of it.

[Johnyz]

It would be quite interesting and I am sure there must be already a number of scientific studies around gambling. I am sure the casinos have requested and financed this type of works, just like McDonalds has perfect knowledge of the views of its clients and has carefully designed all the products. I think the field is certainly still open with the gambling on-line to economic, psicological or other studies.

Casinos want more people to gamble and spend more time in gambling for obvious reasons. A lot of research has already done on gambling and there is a concent world wide that its an addiction and should only be done by moderators and that too in moderation. Just dont spend too much on gambling, most take it fun but end up in anxiety.

Studies shows the same result all over again and yet many are still addicted in gambling. Most probably, this studies either can give a warning to some gamblers and can encourage someone to gamble, hoping that the purpose of this study is to fully educate the people and give the real situation of gambling because if its not, then I think this is a useless studies which only side in favor of the casinos.

[iv4n]

I have my own thesis on gambling, and I share it here from time to time! Everything is gambling! Chances for something to happen or not to happen float around all the time! We all do things to gain something, we invest ourselves and what we have in everything around us, from relationships of any kind to jobs of any kind! We all give and receive! And can we say that we received more or less than we gave? Or is it vice-versa? It's always gambling, I see chances everywhere around... We just gamble, because we never know the outcome! And sometimes we win in life and love, sometimes we don't! Just like in gambling with dice!

After all, gambling is math! Just numbers, a lot of numbers, and calculations! Once you start thinking like that you see chances and odds everywhere around! And you know what?! The result is always hard to predict, simply we face so many surprises through life, it's when low odds fall and high odds pass!

[STT]

The theory of probability is a valid study dating back hundreds of years.   Its a totally valid part of modern maths so I dont find their research award too controversial.  Gambling is a normal activity not just for sport or fun but every industry has unknown risk factors they must address to improve known outcomes.      Its more incorrect to define the wider world as known and certain.

[goinmerry]

Games, metaverse games, gambling games - seem a good idea to pick up.

Metaverse Gambling, NFTs, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, Decentralization - sounds like a start for a new scam ICO project. Someone should write a thesis on that!
 

For familiarization and awareness, these subjects are good to pick for the thesis.

If you did your thesis before, your subject should cover all the stuff be it positive or negative. That's how you work for your thesis, a complete one discussing the pros and cons. Because of that, the scam part will also be discussed.

In that way, people won't be much that hyped about these new trends in gambling thinking the new innovation means an easy profit and winnings.

[roslinpl]

Gambling was running with the gambling addiction,huge players of gambling was getting addiction. Mataverse is seems to the scam gambling site. Gambling needs more and more skills for the investment of the traders. Gamblers play over the Metaversa had a positive opinion. But now their option to win vigorously. Many need huge funds to do thesis on gambling, but for me it's enough to do with 1000$ for this.

[Maus0728]

The KSA also gave an honourable mention to Damiaan Reijnaers for his bachelor’s thesis on the use of artificial intelligence in poker.

Hahahaha.

For me, it looks like one real paper with really complex and interesting material received "Thank you", and two papers with obviously less usefulness (one is completely garbage - reasoning about ethics) received cash prizes.

If I were doing research in gambling, it would rather be research in mathematics (including AI) or something similar (tangible), but not this empty demagogy about ethics.

Psychology students are finding your location LOL. Gambling is an "activity" and therefore there can be tons of fields of studies that can use this as a research topic. These includes gamblers' mentality, addiction, or even the gambling system itself. Psychology research are indeed tough since you are more onto Qualitative approach that relies more on behavioral study or case studies while the mathematical approach can be done even without observing people for countless of hours just for a single line of proof. Moreover, case studies/ behavioral studies doesn't always conclude to an answer, but rather a data to be used for a future reference, hence never been a garbage.

If I were to create one, despite of my knowledge in programming and math, I'd rather be focusing on the gamblers' behavior as such findings are way more helpful than creating a gambling system that already had been made by tons of people.

[Poker Player]

For € 2,500 why not?

Because you are going to spend years doing the thesis and if you count the total hours you spend on it, the average would not be even €1 per hour. If you include expenses that you necessarily have to make, financially it is a ruin.

Doing a doctoral thesis only makes sense nowadays if you plan to be a university professor. Before it also made sense to show that you know a lot in a field that you are passionate about, but nowadays with everyone having internet on their cell phones it is much more worthwhile to set up a Youtube channel or something like that where apart from sharing your knowledge about what you are passionate about you can earn money, instead of spending money from your pocket as you would do with a doctoral thesis, just so you can tell people that you are a PhD when you go to a dinner even though you are not a university professor and never will be.

[Cryptock]

For € 2,500 why not?

Because you are going to spend years doing the thesis and if you count the total hours you spend on it, the average would not be even €1 per hour. If you include expenses that you necessarily have to make, financially it is a ruin.

Doing a doctoral thesis only makes sense nowadays if you plan to be a university professor. Before it also made sense to show that you know a lot in a field that you are passionate about, but nowadays with everyone having internet on their cell phones it is much more worthwhile to set up a Youtube channel or something like that where apart from sharing your knowledge about what you are passionate about you can earn money, instead of spending money from your pocket as you would do with a doctoral thesis, just so you can tell people that you are a PhD when you go to a dinner even though you are not a university professor and never will be.

This is a wise thought by OP - but the ^^ above message states good fact too. Even if you do a research and quit gambling - its not an easy thing to do.
It is like a chain smoker who wants to quit smoking or an addicted alcohol drinker who wants to quit drinking. In our society there is a quote which says - excess of everything is bad. And it is! 

[davis196]

Loot boxes aren't ethical?
I don't need to write a thesis,in order to come to the conclusion that loot boxes aren't ethical.
Loot boxes aren't fair to begin with.They are just great for hooking up the players and manipulating their minds into producing more dopamin.
Gambling games and video games aren't supposed to be ethical and fair.They are supposed to manipulate your brain and make you think that you are having some fun,while wasting your time(and money).There's nothing necessarily wrong with that.All the bad habits and guilty pleasures are like that.
Anyway,I don't think writing a thesis about gambling should be financially rewarded.The companies in the gambling business could spend those money for advertising or for building better online casinos.

[nullama]

I think the whole subject of gambling in general is quite an interesting topic to do some research, and there are many topics that would be great to explore.

Other than the usual psychological themes you could also explore what are some of the best investments of gambling profits. A famous Australian professional gambler, David Walsh, ended up opening an amazing Museum of Old and New Art(MONA) in Hobart, Tasmania with what he earned gambling using his system.

[Darker45]

I'm interested to read this man's thesis. It must not be a simple thesis of arguing that loot boxes are not ethical as per Immanuel Kant. There must be more than this which made it approved as a valid thesis and even made the judges choose it as deserving of the award.

But I don't know if this application of Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative ethics is the kind of practicality that we would want. After all, even gambling itself in general might end up unethical through the lens of Kant.

But, overall, philosophy applied to loot boxes is indeed amusing.