Hazing types by group type.

[DrPhil]

And even news stories of hazing don't tell us whether certain chapters (aggregated into types of organizations) do more physical, mental, or alcohol-related hazing.

A chapter can get in trouble for paddling but that doesn't mean that there wasn't more yelling and insulting pledges than paddling pledges. The paddling is simply what left the visible mark and ended up getting reported. The same goes for a chapter that gets in trouble for alcohol-related hazing.

So are these observations of patterns based on something substantive and qualitative? Quantitative means very little.

[DrPhil]

Quoted for naraht.

Originally Posted by DrPhil

And even news stories of hazing don't tell us whether certain chapters (aggregated into types of organizations) do more physical, mental, or alcohol-related hazing.

A chapter can get in trouble for paddling but that doesn't mean that there wasn't more yelling and insulting pledges than paddling pledges. The paddling is simply what left the visible mark and ended up getting reported. The same goes for a chapter that gets in trouble for alcohol-related hazing.

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Also, I don't think that there is a hazing case that involves solely ONE type of activity.

FWIW, I know what he is trying to accomplish.

But, these types of discussions tend to go the same way, whether they are held on message boards or in-person. You always wonder why people care (some people care because they like to ask such questions; others care because they want to prove that certain orgs have better pledge processes); and you wonder how they know what they claim to know in order to make these observations.

Those of us who have been members for years and been in diverse GLO settings have pretty much seen or heard "it all" from every type of org. But even what we've seen or heard is a small percentage of what is actually going on.