Since the set of qualities measured are believed to reinforce one another to varying degrees, but always in a positive manner, weak correlations between qualities require consideration. The nature of the faculty “Deeper Contradictions” output varies significantly between schools. Using six examples, the narrative and data examine the implications of a large set of contradictions in a faculty survey.

Comparing faculty quality scores of their views of the student experience, the most optimistic positive difference on average is +1.0 for the quality Academic Validation. At the other extreme, faculty are most overly pessimistic about the Socioeconomic quality by an even larger factor of -1.5.

In each of the three grade-based phases (Lower, Middle and Upper School), students tend to begin with a more positive outlook which then declines as they move forward in that phase. Interestingly, when students transition to the next phase, their views of the school demonstrably improve and they restart the cycle.