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[quote=Anonymous]I would love to see a copy of the actual study.  I fished around a bit and could not find one (I was not willing to subcribe to the referenced journal).  If anyone has a (legal) link that would be great.
 
As others posted -- I suspect that the end result is based more on the types of folks who elect housing in single sex dorms, but I did read the study authors felt that the statistics were not driven by that factor.

The article references 509 study participants from 5 college campuses, and indicates that the study authors gathered quite a bit of information the participates, but again you would need to review the math to determine if the numbers were statistically significant.  How were the study participants solicited and selected?  How many came from each school and from each type of housing within that school?  What is the housing assignment situation at each school? etc. etc. . . One question for me -- off the top -- is the number of kids surveyed in each housing situation.  I believe I read where the authors of the study felt that single-sex dorms accounted for only about 10 percent of college dorm capacity.  They also felt that students preferred  coed dorms and that assignments to single-sex dorms were more or less random.  That would not be my expectation.  I would anticipate that while kids may prefer coed dorms, those kids who actively chose to live in a single sex dorm will be given preference and that any excess capacity in a single-sex dorm might be filled in with kids who preferred a coed dorm.

The bottom line is that you need to know the details to determine if you believe the study should guide your decisions.          [/quote]

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