Randall Parker at FuturePundit ponders over recent findings that suggest impulsive children are more likely to end up gambling as adults:

Children whose teachers rated them as more impulsive in kindergarten appear more likely to begin gambling behaviors by the sixth grade, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

What I wonder: Since gambling is a lot more accessible online has the internet increased the rate at which people become problem gamblers? I figure the internet enables all sorts of compulsive behaviors like blogging.

His premise is probably correct, but he fails to mention the t-factor (testosterone factor), which probably relates highly to impulsive behavior. As we've proved before here at Corrupt, bankers and wild speculators are a bunch of high-testosterone gamblers.

Children displaying impulsive behavior are simply revealing their genetic disposition to place themselves in risky situations. While I respect Randall, I think he's moralizing this one a bit too much. We need wild gamblers and warriors in society, as long as they assume responsibility for their actions (Wall Street, heed my words).