{"id":38946,"date":"2013-10-09T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38946"},"modified":"2013-10-09T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:51:42","slug":"couldnt-see-this-coming-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38946","title":{"rendered":"Couldn’t See This Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

As “bullies” have become public enemy number one, a scourge being tackled by state legislatures, you might think that all of this frenzied activity would be affecting the incidence of bullying.<\/p>\n

And you’d be right – but not in the way you’d suspect<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ll add some emphasis:<\/p>\n

It started as a simple look at bullying. University of Texas at Arlington criminologist Seokjin Jeong analyzed data collected from 7,000 students from all 50 states.<\/p>\n

He thought the results would be predictable and would show that anti-bullying programs curb bullying. Instead \u2014 he found the opposite.<\/p>\n

Jeong said it was, \u201cA very disappointing and a very surprising thing. Our anti-bullying programs, either intervention or prevention does not work<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study concluded that students at schools with anti-bullying programs might actually be more likely to become a victim of bullying<\/strong>. It also found that students at schools with no bullying programs were less likely to become victims.<\/p>\n

The results were stunning for Jeong. \u201cUsually people expect an anti-bullying program to have some impact \u2014 some positive impact.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Politics is the worst possible way to allocate resources; it may be even worse for regulating behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As “bullies” have become public enemy number one, a scourge being tackled by state legislatures, you might think that all of this frenzied activity would be affecting the incidence of bullying. And you’d be right – but not in the way you’d suspect.\u00a0 I’ll add some emphasis: It started as a simple look at bullying. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38948,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38946\/revisions\/38948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}