title: Tilting at windmills: a comment on Auer and Griffiths.
abstract: In their review of Internet gambling studies, Auer and Griffiths (Soc Sci Comput Rev 20(3):312-320, 2013) question the validity of using bet size as an indicator of gambling intensity. Instead, Auer and Griffiths suggest using "theoretical loss" as a preferable measure of gambling intensity. This comment identifies problems with their argument and suggests a convergent rather than an exclusionary approach to Internet gambling measures and analysis.
authors.affiliation: Division on Addiction, The Cambridge Health Alliance, 101 Station Landing, 2nd Floor, Medford, MA, 02155, USA, braverju@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Braverman
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tom
authors.forename: Howard J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Shaffer
mesh_terms: D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology*; D005715:Gambling / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012309:Risk-Taking