SU is bad at statistics

The SU survey is unsurprisingly worthless.

Consider this:
1632 people filled out the survey (if we assume there were absolutely no people who made multiple submissions). 6.38% were black, giving around 100. According to washu’s official numbers, around 600 undergrads at washu are black. Therefore, when you see people post “minorities have spoken”, know that the vast majority of minorities HAVE NOT spoken.

Furthermore.

No black student would lie that they were black. A white student however might find it very advantageous to lie that they were black. So we can safely assume that the true number of black responses was even lower.

Furthermore.

Although you were required to put a student ID, there were no checks that it was actually you. Therefore, making multiple responses with fake IDs would have been incredibly easy.

And finally.

One of the most important parts in surveying, unless you survey the entire population, is random sampling and eliminating bias. SU did neither.

Everyone who really cared about abolition filled out the survey. Therefore, the other 6 thousand undergrad students at washu either didn’t care or were for keeping Greek life.

And that’s not even going into how the survey was shared extensively on abolishment pages but not given to IFC or WPA.

Summary: the survey is meaningless. SU should be ashamed of themself, and I pray to god the administration is smarter than them.