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The Most Negative Controversial Behaviors, Survey 1
Student respondents to our initial campus-wide survey were asked to rate each behavior as positive or negative (1=very negative, 5=very positive), to indicate how often each occurs in campus conversations (1=almost never, 5=almost always), and to indicate how often they personal engage in each (1=almost never, 5=almost always).
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Dialogue Component |
Ideal Mean |
Real Mean |
Personal Mean |
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Participants use insulting language. |
Civility |
1.2041 |
2.2700 |
1.4412 |
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Participants avoid the most challenging subjects. |
Flight |
1.5280 |
2.7655 |
2.2824 |
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Participants choose not to speak. |
Flight |
1.5794 |
3.2059 |
2.5353 |
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Participants interrupt one another. |
Civility |
1.7507 |
3.4041 |
2.0914 |
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Participants change the subject to something less controversial. |
Flight |
1.8029 |
2.8521 |
2.0882 |
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Participants with extreme views speak more than those in the middle. |
Inclusivity |
2.0529 |
4.1361 |
n/a |
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Participants raise their voices (values reversed in composite). |
Civility. |
2.0794 |
3.3743 |
2.2750 |
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Participants focus on minor details. |
n/a |
2.3156 |
3.0905 |
2.5353 |
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Participants try to win. |
Competitiveness |
2.5618 |
3.9556 |
3.2500 |
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Participants focus on the weakest aspects of one another’s arguments. |
Competitiveness |
2.6445 |
3.6574 |
3.0015 |
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The right side wins the argument. |
Competitiveness |
2.7240 |
2.7788 |
n/a |