Word: methods
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...report by a researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) that claims to debunk an increasingly popular method of limiting college alcohol abuse has provoked vitriolic responses from an enclave of colleagues, stoking longstanding professional and personal antagonisms, some...
...Wesley Perkins, co-developer of the social norms method and professor of sociology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, said that all 37 schools comprising Wechsler’s social norms pool—from which he and his colleagues drew data between 1997 and 2001—could not all have been practicing the social norms program properly...
Wechsler said he began research on the effectiveness of the social norms method largely because little research existed prior...
DeJong said almost 40 studies exist demonstrating that students overestimate the drinking behavior of their college peers, the principle on which the social norms method is based...
Perkins suggested that Wechsler’s opposition to the social norm method might result from controversy over his work in earlier studies...