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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A study by Brigham Young University in 2009, published in The Journal of American College Health, found a connection between coed dorms and binge drinking. The study surveyed 510 students at five universities and found that those in coed dorms were 2½ times more likely to engage in binge drinking than those in same-sex dorms.

Casual drinking also follows the same trend. In coed dorms, 56 percent said they drank some alcohol weekly, compared with 27 percent in same-gender dorms.

The study also found the results weren’t indicative of self-selection. In other words, the partyers weren’t asking to live in coed dorms. In most cases, universities simply assigned students where to live.

The study’s results were not unique. As John Garvey, the president of The Catholic University of America, wrote in the Wall Street Journal in 2011, several studies point to binge drinking rates being twice as high in coed dorms as in single-sex housing

Read more at http://national.deseretnews.com/article/3433/Hard-liquor-ban-is-good-start-but-public-schools-also-need-return-to-single-sex-dorms.html#vfyVG6sOhhOfH4F5.99[/quote]

I read that. What I meant was more like: why did they even think of doing that study? Where's the logical connection? Why would people in single sex dorms be less likely to binge drink? [/quote]

Do you really not remember what it was like to be 18, away from home for the first time and WOWEE in COLLEGE???

This (co-ed) environment largely creates different expectations," Carroll continued. "What does it mean as you head down the hallway to the showers, that there's going to be mixed gender? What does that mean when there's that kind of proximity and association?"

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