At last our group has been approved for for collecting data! Getting the IRB approval was quite a process. The most frustrating thing about today was that after we did all of that work and got approval, we then found out that we would not be able to use SurveyMonkey without paying $30. It would have been nice if it had notified us when we made all of the questions that creating more than 10 questions is a premium feature.

Major things that we had to change was adding a consent form, which was pretty easy since I just used the template that was given to us. making sure that we are not trying to prove that cadets are commissioning because they have conservative values. When collecting data we are using the rat class as a control variable. Because they are all non-commissioned and either seeking or not seeking we can see that commissioning does not make cadets more conservative. Also we adjusted our data collecting methods to a scale instead of labeling students as Conservative or Liberal basically.

I am very frustrated with a couple of my group members for not pulling their weight in this project. And we will see how the data collection goes!