The real reason behind the gender ratio at Snevets

One of the most prominent features of Snevets’ student body is undoubtedly its gender ratio. At a staggering 70:30 male to female ratio, men at Snevets are by far the majority of the student body while the female population flocks to sororities and special interest clubs to seek out friendships with other women. While the gender ratio can present challenges in a wide array of areas from socialization to the classroom, a shocking revelation has uncovered the true reason Snevets has such an unbalanced ratio.

Snevets is no ordinary college. It is actually the longest running mass social experiment in history. Snevets Institute of Technology was actually founded with the intent of studying the effects of a severely imbalanced gender ratio combined with high stress levels for a prolonged amount of time. The researchers behind the experiment went to extreme lengths to ensure that the experiment would be as discreet as possible so as to yield reliable results, going so far as to actually get accreditation as an engineering school to give out legit degrees so as to not reveal the true purpose of the experiment.

The experiment was originally designed to only study the effects of prolonged stress on males, hence why Snevets only admitted men until 1971. After Snevets began to admit women, the study was expanded to observe behavior in the midst of a disproportionate gender balance.

While the experiment hypothesized that the gender ratio would cause chaos at Snevets, the researchers were not only surprised, but mildly disappointed by the lack of excitement in the results. For instance, one psychologist reported, “We thought that being a minority on campus would cause the women a great deal of psychological stress, but the most they do is like, get pissed off when dudes wear shorts during cold weather.” The observations recorded in the study confirm this general trend; the male population has become comfortable due to being the majority and feel a lack of social pressure to conform to social norms, resulting in behaviors such as wearing shorts in colder weather, playing Minecraft in Pierce for hours on end, and leaving the toilet seats up in the gender neutral bathrooms. In response to these behaviors, instead of reacting with animosity, the female population has formed tighter and stronger bonds with each other due to the shared commonality of being a minority on campus. When questioned about this behavior, one female subject said that the other female subjects “aren’t like, weird, and they understand how it feels.”