Students are Reluctant to Discuss Controversial Topics - 2023 CES report

The 2023 CES asks 4,730 undergraduate students at four-year colleges and universities in the US about different facets of their experience relevant to open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement.
The key findings of this report are that (1) just over 79% of the 4,730 full-time undergraduate student respondents reported being at least somewhat reluctant to discuss, ask questions about, or share their ideas on at least one of the 10 controversial topics asked about on the CES; and (2) the number of students who reported at least some reluctance to discuss a topic was up to 200% higher in the case of the most controversial topics, relative to a typical course topic.
Learn more about our 2023 CES report at heterodoxacademy.org/reports/

[@AndyColglazier]

I listened to another podcast earlier today where a Professor was being interviewed on just this topic. He said that many of his students had expressed, privately, a reluctance to discuss controversial issues publicly because they didn't want to risk being doxxed or criticized or ostracized by their fellow students. That's a sorry state of affairs, right there. I don't care who you are.