So, I am a little late for this post, but better late than never right?

Upon first hearing about getting the IRB approval in order to start collecting data for our project, I thought wow this is going to be a very long and difficult process. Especially since Professor Sanborn said in class that he has to go through this same process in order to get his research approved, I couldn’t help but think oh jeez this  is going to be a horrible process. But once I actually looked at the IRB application form I couldn’t help but think, it cant be this easy. Surprisingly, filling out the form was not that bad.

We received comments after turning in our first draft and there was a few slight changes that needed to be made along wit actually making our survey that needed to be handed out, but otherwise we didn’t do too bad!

One thing I am second guessing is our research design. I am really questioning how many people are going to participate in the survey. Also, is there going to be a good distribution across the different classes. Ideally we would need 30 cadets in each class to respond, which is 120 participants, which seems like a lot. I guess we will have to see.