Maybe Kevin Burke was onto something with his op-ed in The Forum this past week about status and drinking. And maybe the reason Claremont students drink so much is that there's so much fraternizing with the sexes. In a way, perhaps CMC's not male dominated culture leads to more drinking.
Or I could just be wrong. Anyways, check out this study.
From Yahoo News:
A new study finds university students in coed housing are 2.5 times more
likely to binge drink every week. And no surprise, they're also likely to have
more sexual partners, the study found. Also, pornography use was higher among
students in coed dorms.
Some 90 percent of U.S. college dorms are now coed.
More than 500 students from five college campuses around the country
participated in the study. Among the results:
42 percent of students in coed housing reported binge drinking on a weekly basis.
18 percent of students in gender-specific housing reported binge drinking weekly.
2 comments:
Money quote:
More than 500 students from five college campuses around the country
participated in the study.
That sounds anything by comprehensive to me. As every science student says when their lab fails, "This required further study."
I agree that the survey is far from scientific, but isn't the real problem here self-selection bias? If you choose to go to a college that doesn't have coed dorms or if you choose to live in a single-sex dorm when there are coed options, you are probably less likely to binge/have sex to begin with. It's not the living situation that causes students to drink, it just happens to be correlated.
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