Reaching our final research question was certainly not a seamless process. We moved in circles and tangential lines before ending where we are now, theorizing that individual discipline within the Corps is based on your company and the group norms and culture that are created within it. Lower ranking companies have less strict rules or a more lenient standard and therefore have more PT offenders. For example, Alpha is lower in the Corps order as displayed by lower Garnett Andrews scores and we would expect Alpha to be marching more PTs than Echo or Delta, companies who usually win Garnett Andrews and have the reputation of intense discipline.
Where we foresee issues is in dealing with outliers, collecting enough data, and making sure our logic is fluid. In troubleshooting conversation, one group member pointed out that a company with lower standards would bone less so the cadets within it would not be marching PTs. That is for excess demerits at least! Lack of boning at morning inspections is not enough to say a cadet is disciplined if there is much greater offenses that are handled by Comm Staff who delivers the punishment. Questions in our survey will make that distinction.
I hope once we push out the survey and get more feedback from you, we will feel like we are moving along in the right direction.