Evidence Validation Report

Generated: January 04, 2025 at 01:07 PM

Chapter 1 Methodological Validation

Evidence Validation Report for Dissertation Chapter Outlines

Executive Summary

This report validates specific evidence IDs and phrase counts cited in dissertation chapter outlines against the actual CUNY databases.

Priority 1: Specific Evidence ID Validation

FOUND Evidence IDs:

  1. comment_iphki91 (Baruch) ✅
    • Author: npukelik0001
    • Score: 5
    • Date: 2022-09-22
    • Claimed quote: “one was working out of 5” elevators
    • VERIFIED: “the crappy elevators (one was working out of 5 just yesterday)”
    • Full text: “honestly, if you’re a freshman, i’d say to go to any college with low tuition cost — do the year of basic college classes that are needed for everyone, and then transfer here. from the amount of students on campus right now, the crappy elevators (one was working out of 5 just yesterday), the crappy new cunyfirst system that they just replaced when no one asked them to, most of incentives being taken away
 i would transfer here later on”
  2. comment_kvqhf1r (Baruch) ✅
    • Author: smile-wait4theflash
    • Score: 1
    • Date: 2024-03-20
    • Claimed quote: elevator “dropped five floors while going up”
    • VERIFIED: “One elevator literally dropped five floors while going up yesterday”
    • Full text: “One elevator literally dropped five floors while going up yesterday
gonna have to reconsider using them p”
  3. submission_1gl6d9j (HunterCollege) ✅
    • Author: FrontStageMomo
    • Score: 35
    • Date: 2024-11-06
    • Title: “Some people stuck in the elevator rn , if you guys see this lmk.”
    • Claimed: Hunter elevator EMS incident, students trapped
    • VERIFIED: “DO YOU GUYS NEED EMS??” CUNY officer talking through elevator door
    • Full text: “Right now, Wed Nov 6 2pm, I was on the third floor of north and I hear ‘DO YOU GUYS NEED EMS??’ It was a CUNY officer talking through an elevator door. She then asked ‘HOW LONG HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN STUCK THERE?’ Couldn’t hear the answer. Idk if they’re stuck on the third floor or if they’re somewhere between the second and third or what but if u guys know anything or if any of u sees this lmk. They seemed to be on the elevator pretty much all the way to the left (left when facing the elevators). Edit: went back down 10 mins later and everything seemed good.”
  4. comment_mbwzqsd (Baruch) ✅
    • Author: IceTheChilled
    • Score: 35
    • Date: 2025-02-09
    • Full text: “Wifi sucks, elevators are always full and sometimes don’t work, all classes are on the 11th floor for some reason, even as a senior. Nobody enforces any rules in the library and kids are rude and loud af like it’s a cafeteria.”
    • Note: The claimed quote “waited at least 5-10 mins for elevator” appears in comment_iom3s7b instead

Correction for “5-10 mins” quote:

comment_iom3s7b (Baruch) ✅

  • Full text: “More cons than pro for me. This school have literally no where to sit or study. Also, most of the classroom desks and chairs are fuckin dated. School is damn crowded this semester and I waited at least 5-10 mins for elevator. No where indoor to have my damn lunch. Only pro for me is the location and leniency professors.”

MISSING Evidence IDs:

  1. comment_m4x2kp9 ❌
    • Claimed: “pandemic transit risk management”
    • Status: NOT FOUND in any CUNY database
    • Searched all 8 CUNY databases with multiple query patterns

Priority 2: Exact Phrase Count Validation

Phrase Count Results:

  1. “queens to manhattan”
    • Claimed: 487 mentions
    • ACTUAL: 0 exact phrase matches ❌
    • Individual word counts: “queens” (1,897), “manhattan” (361)
    • Recommendation: Revise to use individual term counts or broader search patterns
  2. “hunter to queens”
    • Claimed: 312 mentions
    • ACTUAL: 5 mentions (3 comments, 2 submissions) ❌
    • Sample evidence:
      • comment_m9wkk19: “why did you switch from Hunter to Queens?”
      • comment_m9x0h14: “I transferred from Hunter to Queens College”
      • submission_aij7g0: Transfer discussion
  3. “if the express is running”
    • Claimed: 89 mentions
    • ACTUAL: 0 exact phrase matches ❌
    • Related: “express” appears in 283 comments total
    • Train-specific mentions: E train (327), 6 train (49), F train (29), 7 train (8)

Priority 3: Elevator/Escalator Infrastructure

Infrastructure Failure Mentions:

  • Claimed: 187 total
  • ACTUAL: 616 total mentions ✅ (329% of claimed, significantly higher)
    • Baruch: 395 mentions (64% of total)
    • HunterCollege: 105 mentions (17%)
    • CUNY: 57 mentions (9%)
    • CCNY: 46 mentions (7%)
    • QueensCollege: 12 mentions (2%)
    • BrooklynCollege: 1 mention (<1%)

Sample Failure Evidence IDs:

  • comment_m1ngabh (Baruch): “got stuck in the elevator on the first day”
  • comment_ip9gfu0 (Baruch): “elevators not working, too crowded”
  • comment_jyucom6 (Baruch): “fake elevator
just out of service”
  • comment_mf7sfrt (Hunter): “broke my leg. still went to class on the sixth floor when the elevators were broken”
  • comment_ly50ddp (CCNY): “escalators and elevators were broken”
  • comment_llysa1l (CCNY): “continuous process of elevators/escalators not working is unfortunately almost synonymous with CUNY”

Priority 4: Campus Preference Evidence

“68% prefer Manhattan despite commute”

This appears to be a synthesized statistical claim without direct database support. Found qualitative evidence supporting Manhattan campus preference:

  • comment_iy1kkae (Baruch): “I picked Baruch over other CUNY because of the big selections of math classes available”
  • comment_mlonzed (Queens): “Queens is in the middle of nowhere, with no real food options or other infrastructure nearby”
  • comment_mw0kxbq (Queens): “It’s not an hour from the BX to QC. Go to City College or another CUNY school near you”
  • comment_gl3t33p (Brooklyn): Accounting major chose Brooklyn College despite getting into “Ivy, Private and Public” schools

Additional Findings

Pandemic Transit Concerns:

  • Total pandemic + transit/subway/commute mentions: 26 comments (post-2020)
  • Much lower than expected for claimed “pandemic transit risk management” theme
  • Most pandemic discussions focus on remote learning preferences, not transit risks

Transit Infrastructure Discourse:

  • “commute”: 1,475 total mentions across all CUNY databases
  • “subway”: 225 mentions
  • Campus-specific transit patterns emerge around specific train lines
  • E train discussions dominate (327 mentions) due to Queens-Manhattan connection

Wait Time Evidence:

  • comment_iphjdo7: “back when campus first opened
there was no wait time for an elevator”
  • comment_ipgsrjh: “back in 2020/2021, there’s almost no wait for an elevator”
  • comment_io6emv2: “elevator never had a wait time of 10 mins to step inside one”
  • comment_im89hx2: “had to go up 5 Flights of stairs because the express elevators were so crowded”

Recommendations for Dissertation Revision

  1. Evidence ID Corrections:
    • Remove comment_m4x2kp9 (does not exist)
    • Change comment_mbwzqsd to comment_iom3s7b for “5-10 mins” quote
    • Verify all evidence IDs maintain proper t1/t3 prefixes
  2. Phrase Count Revisions:
    • Replace exact phrase counts with thematic term frequencies
    • “Queens-Manhattan commute discourse”: Use individual term counts
    • “Express train discussions”: 283 mentions (not “if the express is running”)
    • “Hunter-Queens transfers”: 5 documented cases (not 312)
  3. Infrastructure Claims:
    • Update to 616 elevator/escalator mentions (not 187)
    • Emphasize Baruch’s disproportionate share (64% of all complaints)
    • Include temporal pattern: infrastructure complaints increase post-2022
  4. Methodological Notes:
    • Distinguish between exact phrase matches and thematic discourse
    • Use evidence IDs consistently with full prefixes
    • Consider co-occurrence patterns rather than exact phrases

Data Quality Assessment

  • Database integrity: Confirmed proper t1/t3 prefix structure
  • Temporal coverage: Evidence spans 2022-2025
  • Campus distribution: Baruch dominates infrastructure complaints
  • Search methodology: Case-insensitive searches across body, title, and selftext fields

Query Documentation

Report generated: 2025-01-04 13:07:00 Databases searched: CUNY, Baruch, HunterCollege, QueensCollege, CCNY, BrooklynCollege, JohnJay, CUNYuncensored Total records examined: ~222,000 comments, ~55,000 submissions (CUNY corpus)

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