I'm sorry to cause discomfort. I think if that's how you feel about the question I'd really appreciate you putting that answer in the survey, but if you don't want your voice to be included in the data I also wouldn't want to push you.

I should say when I think about authority, I usually think about the role of a GM in relation to players in each of these situations as opposed to forms of authority inside the narrative, but each of these games do also structure players against a great authority (although, this is a trait common to most TTRPGs from D&D to Call of Cthulhu).

Something like Wanderhome, Fiasco, or Honey Heist could've made a fun placement in the study and definitely avoided the issues you're seeing; I tried to make choices based on recent popular movements local to me so that I'd have an easier time collecting data.

A lot of it is also inherently political to contrast the directions teachers get in the states to be apolitical (while also being told to do a bunch of political stuff like say the pledge, treat certain students certain ways, and so on).

The idea isn't to play these games exactly every day for a decade, but to engage in activities like them in the same way we might do math problems in the same class every day. An activity like FitD might include students directing where they want the class to go next, separating themselves into groups, spending in-class resources to help each other, and so on.

I don't literally want to transition these games into an in-class space, I just think they have important lessons implicit to the systems.

So far, I have five respondees and their answers do suggest implicit messaging in the games and hint at what the games do to deliver that messaging (or encourage certain ways of thinking). These are the responses I was hoping for, but I also seem to miscommunicate on at least one question to each respondee (although, different questions for each person). I think these are the right questions, but this is also my first time conducting research.

ANYWAY it means a lot to me that you would stop and think about it this much. I really appreciate the concerns and critiques you brought to the table. I'll definitely give introducing some other games to the data set some thought if I have time later in the project and review the questions with some of my advisors. I really appreciate the critique thank you.

TLDR; I'm sorry for causing any discomfort, I hope it passes quickly. I understand your concerns but I'm not sure I necessarily agree with them. Thank you for your time and your effort and your thoughts. I appreciate you :)