> Even if you were to create a special "school for smart people only" and magically teleport all geeks there, I wouldn't be sure it would eliminate the problem of geeks being bullied.
First, note that the standard the school has to meet isn't "no bullying", but rather "significantly less bullying". I presume this is what you mean.
Anyway: What is your evidence for this claim? Have you ever spent time in such a school and compared it to a regular school?
Data point of N=1. I went to a special "school for smart people only". There was dramatically less bullying than the regular-people school I came from.
But anyway the researchers are providing actual scientific evidence of this effect, and you appear to be arguing against it using, apparently, intuition based on no evidence whatsoever. "Yes, these experts say X, but that sounds unbelievable to me; therefore they must be wrong."
First, note that the standard the school has to meet isn't "no bullying", but rather "significantly less bullying". I presume this is what you mean.
Anyway: What is your evidence for this claim? Have you ever spent time in such a school and compared it to a regular school?
Data point of N=1. I went to a special "school for smart people only". There was dramatically less bullying than the regular-people school I came from.
But anyway the researchers are providing actual scientific evidence of this effect, and you appear to be arguing against it using, apparently, intuition based on no evidence whatsoever. "Yes, these experts say X, but that sounds unbelievable to me; therefore they must be wrong."
Surely you do not endorse this sort of reasoning.