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What are the chances that a kid who has had his/her lunch money stolen by the school bully is documented in an official school record? I'm sure it depends on t
by anonAndOn 6y ago
What are the chances that a kid who has had his/her lunch money stolen by the school bully is documented in an official school record? I'm sure it depends on the school, but based on personal recollection of schoolyard threats received, I'd say bullying incidents are hugely underreported and possibly not recorded even when reported.
- ekianjo 6y agoIt's still a valid point that self-reporting is not really a very scientific measurement for everything out there.
- ianai 6y agoIt’s an even more valid point that bullying should be taken much more seriously and societal institutions to remediate it out in place - more scientific means of measurement would be just a paper thin start.
- zachrip 6y agoI think in anonymous polling you'd find the results to be much more accurate than school records. Schools have awful track records of enabling bullies with things like "zero-tolerance" and the like.
- ska 6y agoSelf reporting has know problems, and some mitigations. Relying on institutional records with active counter incentives for accuracy and/or completeness is also problematic, probably more so.
- marcosdumay 6y agoSelf-reporting is a perfectly reasonable kind of measurement. It has some error margin and bias that must be corrected, just like any kind of measurement. It measures some things better than others, just like any kind of measurement. It must be applied with a serious and conscious understanding of its limitations, just like any kind of measurement. The underlying fact is that social sciences are hard. And science reporting sucks even for the easy stuff. Society would lose a lot if social scientists just placed a universal block on self-reported data, but maybe we would gain if journalists did it.