Analysis of Data

Starting off it was good to have diversity among our respondents because we know we were hearing from not only one class or group of people.

This also proved to be important for us to achieve a fair balance of students coming from different viewpoints to get a more well-rounded understanding of our questions. Part of being influenced by others on campus comes from how students feel they’re able to talk about their beliefs with one another which we can see in our percentages. With an overwhelming number of almost three-quarters of students claiming that their beliefs have changed since attending Western, we can see that the impact the environment from college has is a strong persuasive influence.

Our main point of this research question was to find if students involved in their groups had changed. When analyzing our results we have a huge number of respondents claiming a lack of support from Western along with their explanations. Of the 70.6% of students who said their involvement had changed, it wasn’t positive. Most felt they had been torn away from their activity due to a lack of peer and college support. Having the other statistics from our questions gives us a better understanding as to how it all makes sense. ​An example of this is, out of the students we had take our survey, over half claimed that they’ve felt uncomfortable when someone was discussing their beliefs to them. On the flip side, more than half of the student’s also felt uncomfortable with sharing their beliefs with others due to fear of judgment or disapproval. We see these issues as a sign that something needs to change because of the majority of people that don’t feel the acceptance that colleges claim to provide.