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...Wechsler??s report, which surveyed students and administrators at 118 United States colleges and universities, said the 37 schools that had adopted a social norms program showed “a pattern of significant increase in drinking” whereas schools without a social norms program exhibited no distinct statistical trends...
...study, published at the end of last month, elicited strong opposition from many of Wechsler??s colleagues...
...least some critics take issue with the content of the report itself. Opponents of Wechsler??s conclusion say the study draws its results from an incorrectly classified data pool...
...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...
...late 1990s, there were no more than a couple dozen schools in total that were really doing social norms programs,” he said. “At best, one or two [used in Wechsler??s study] would have been schools that were intentionally doing social norms at that time...