Haven’t read the WashU/Vanderbilt report yet, but if the article & takes here are at all indicative, it looks like it mirrors the central problem with the Yale “trust in higher ed” report: an attempt to tackle a social science problem without bothering to try and actually do the social science.
Mark Copelovitch
The polite way to describe this is "it's a shoddy report based on a total lack of rigorous social scientific analysis & data." Other, less charitable & less polite descriptions, of course, are also readily available.
