Media mentions: Salaga quoted on sports betting and viewership; Fiorella quoted on benefits of taking notes by longhand
Salaga quoted on sports betting and viewership
A positive relationship between television viewership and a billion-dollar gambling market may mean that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and its member institutions stand to benefit from sports betting.
According to a study by Steven Salaga, an assistant professor in the College of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, and Scott Tainsky, an associate professor in the Mike Ilitch School of Business at Wayne State University, viewers stay tuned to games longer when either team has a chance to cover the point spread.
“The issue is separating out whether or not people are watching because it’s a good game or because they’re interested in the gambling market,” Salaga told ESPN Chalk. “Once we figured out how we could separate it out, we just thought we had to do this and see if we found anything. The results were pretty strong.”
Read the full story on ESPN Chalk and Online Gambling.
Fiorella quoted on benefits of taking notes by longhand
Logan Fiorella, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, was recently quoted by 11Alive on the benefits of using pen and paper to take notes in class.
“Putting information in their own words helps them better integrate the material with their existing knowledge,” said Fiorella.
Students who take notes longhand instead of typing on a computer are more likely to select only the most important information and rephrase that material in their own words, he added.