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TSA-Alerie reports [French] that a poster on a conference at the National Library of Algeria has a controversial claim:

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La mixité sexuelle à l’école est la cause numéro un de la violence scolaire

which translates to:

Mixed-sex schools are the number one cause of school violence.

The claim is from Smaïl Boulbina, an Algerian sexologist.

I'm very skeptical about that. Is mixed-sex education the largest factor - or even a factor at all - in school violence?

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    Seems to me that schools are the number one cause of school violence... we should just ban schools –  Mar 10 '17 at 00:30
  • Even if it does in Algeria (where it may be a cultural or religious thing that triggers such) that doesn't mean it does so everywhere. So you'd have to make the question far more specific. – jwenting Mar 14 '17 at 15:08
  • @jwenting That could be included in the answers by specifying in what countries the research was done. –  Apr 04 '17 at 07:48
  • @JanDoggen sure, but the question infers that some poster in Algeria means that it's happening to pretty much the same degree everywhere. – jwenting Apr 04 '17 at 09:16
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    There are multiple problems with this claim. You see, to get a *really* meaningful statistic, you'd need data from a country were *both* mixed-sex and separated-sex schools are *common*... or you'll look at "the common" type of school and the "special" kind of school, and will have a hard time ruling out that differences in violent events are due to the mixed / separated sex nature of those schools, and not due to whatever made the one kind "special" in a society where the other kind is the norm. -- So, my counterquestion would be, *is there a country where both school types coexist*? – DevSolar Apr 04 '17 at 11:42
  • I'm pretty sure at best we'd be able to show a correlation. Proving a causal relationship in this case is near impossible, because mixed and separated schools usually have a lot of other variables that change for them, the primary one being the cultural and social background of the parents. – Peter Apr 04 '17 at 12:43

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