[iambateman]

They buried the lede…

Participation in sports betting appears to make people about 2x more likely to be delinquent on their loans.

Whether you think that’s “bad enough” is another question, but the article doesn’t make it very clear what the effect size is.

[julianozen]

I wonder if this is just selection bias

People who are bad with money are bad with money

[eru]

Well, at least you'd want to be careful about correlations vs causation, yes.