Survey Results, Part II

Hi! Heather is back! Sorry I've been gone... I've been busy with school and stuff. Today, I'm continuing what I was working on last post. Here are more interesting details about the survey that we took.

Although 67.6% of respondents claimed to be accepting to all people and 93.9% claimed never to have accidentally discriminated against others, only 14.7% feel completely safe at school, and 50% feel completely safe at home. This creates a strange conclusion: most everyone is accepting and kind to others, and yet the majority of people feel unsafe or uncomfortable being themselves. There are only a few ways to explain this. First, people are uncomfortable with themselves and their own identity. Second, there are outside factors(parents, administrators, etc.) who were not surveyed and who cause respondents to feel uncomfortable. The third and most probable of my theories is that respondents are actually not as accepting and inclusive as they believe they are being. One way this could manifest is that they are totally comfortable with what they say and do, but others interpret actions or words differently and in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable.

Another issue(that we were not able to address in this project due to lack of resources and time), is social pressures. One respondent noted that they didn't always feel included. This is interesting because the respondent has not been a victim of obvious discrimination to their knowledge, but feels somewhat uncomfortable at school and in public. 

Ultimately, this survey taught us a lot not only about the subject(s) of the survey, but about the people we were surveying. Many of them conformed to societal expectations for most of or all of the survey. Also, a few of them did not appear to care about the goals of the survey, or the project behind the survey. A link is here if you would like to take the survey and help us out a little(If we get enough data, we'll do a new round of results and conclusions). 
https://goo.gl/forms/zk9ECLGnf9DHm35f2

Sorry this was so short. Bye!
<3, Heather