Senior Washed Up Girls at Yale

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In a survey of more than 500 students at five U.S. universities, researchers found that students living in co-ed housing were 2.5 times more likely than those in all-male or all-female dorms to admit to binge-drinking on a weekly basis. They were also more than twice as likely to say they’d had at least three sex partners in the past year.

What were the five universities? Did they all have the same breakdown of coed and single-sex housing? It seems to me that you could get very different results in a study like this depending on what colleges you choose. Are, say, the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama interchangeable in a study like that? I’m pretty sure Brigham Young and Tulane would not be. This is one reason I always reserve judgment when positions are based on surveys.</p>

<p>cross-posted with JHS</p>