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Is there any research on the effect of training on sexual assault in the workplace?
by grandmczeb 8y ago
Is there any research on the effect of training on sexual assault in the workplace?
- HarryHirsch 8y agoMany universities offer scientific ethics training for incoming research students. (The NSF actually demands it for projects they sponsor.) The purpose isn't to make them walk the narrow path of goodness, it's to enable them to spot temptation when it comes, as it inevitably will. With sexual harassment the line is much sharper drawn. If someone hasn't learned how to behave civilly and not to exploit a power differential in their early 20s, no amount of training is going to help.
- grandmczeb 8y ago> no amount of training is going to help. That might be true, but what's your evidence? I'm not trying to argue one way or another, I'd legitimately like to know if there's research on the effectiveness of sexual assault training in the workplace.
- HarryHirsch 8y agoStill anecdotal, but a few months ago this account of a woman writing for the NY Times and her Tinder date made the rounds: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/style/modern-love-he-asked-permission-to-touch-but-not-to-ghost.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/style/modern-love-he-aske... It gives you reason to be very pessimistic about consent training and society.
- grandmczeb 8y agoI'm confused as to how that article is relevant.
- wvenable 8y agoI think it probably removes plausible deniability by the perpetrator. If someone did X and X is explicitly in the sexual harassment training then they don't much of a leg to stand on that way.