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Profiling For Good!. Stopping GLBT Bullying Before it Starts With Justin Anderson, Brad Kohl and Patrick Curoe. In 2010, Anoka County suffered a rash of GLBT suicides, usually tied to bullying behavior targeting their sexuality .
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Profiling For Good! Stopping GLBT Bullying Before it StartsWith Justin Anderson, Brad Kohl and Patrick Curoe
In 2010, Anoka County suffered a rash of GLBT suicides, usually tied to bullying behavior targeting their sexuality.
In 2011, GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) surveyed some 8,584 GLBT youth, studying their experiences in school. They have been doing this survey on a biennial basis since 1999.
The GLSEN National School Climate Survey, however, is not intended for use profiling communities in order to predictthings like the Anoka County suicides.
Can we predict bullying behavior based on community profiles? The Question
What do you see? Look at the survey
People are shaped into who they are by their environments. If one can understand the environment, one can make educated guesses at what the people it produces will be like. The theory
Bullying behaviors can be profiled and groups with an endemic bullying profile can be targeted proactively with resources geared toward their demographic. The theory
Finding correlationsCorrelation doesn’t imply causation, but maybe we don’t care.
Right, we’re done here. Go home. The show’s over.