Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
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Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
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Re: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
#2From personal experience, joining a fraternity definitely affected my grades negatively. I ended up graduating with around a 3.1 after a few rough semesters far below that. Having said that, the connections I made have been absolutely invaluable and I'd attribute all of the success I've had in my career to either my work experience as a student or the relationships I made in the frat.
Re: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
#3Unless you're already about to fail, few, if any, employers will care about your GPA, and joining a large network of college graduates who share camaraderie can't hurt when it comes to finding well paying positions and moving up in organizations
Re: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
#4Or Alpha males have greater tendency to join frats and to progress into leadership and push for greater pay...
Why claim causal link here?
Re: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
#5Or Alpha males have greater tendency to join frats and to progress into leadership and push for greater pay... Why claim causal link here?
Why claim "Alpha" exist?
Before getting too up in arms it's probably worthwhile to see what the actual paper claims.
Re: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
#6Re: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
#7Not surprising. Fraternities engage in many nonacademic activities which could lead to a lower GPA, but they also come with a very large social network and series of connections which help members find jobs and further career options.
Re: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why claim "Alpha" exist? Before getting too up in arms it's probably worthwhile to see what the actual paper claims.
err, what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(ethology)#Controversy
"Researcher L. David Mech, one of the primary creators of the Alpha male hypothesis for wolves, later found additional evidence that the concept of an Alpha male may have been an erroneous interpretation of incomplete data and formally disavowed this terminology in 1999. He explained that it was heavily based on the behavior of captive packs consisting of unrelated individuals, an error reflecting the once prevailing view that wild pack formation occurred in winter among independent gray wolves. Later research on wild gray wolves revealed that the pack is usually a family consisting of a breeding pair and its offspring of the previous 1–3 years.[16]
Researcher M.W. Foster investigated primates and found that the leaders were more likely to be those who did more for those around them instead of being determined by strength. [17]
In humans, the concept of an alpha male was challenged as being largely nonexist as per an article by Dean Burnett, who found that human leadership roles vary wildly based on the current social context, and traits attributed to an "Alpha" might be exhibited in one scenario, and traits attributed to a "Beta" might be exhibited in a different scenario by the same individual. [18]"