case0101: Motivation and Creativity

In Sleuth2: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

Description

Data from an experiment concerning the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on creativity. Subjects with considerable experience in creative writing were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups.

Usage

case0101

Format

A data frame with 47 observations on the following 2 variables.

Score

creativity score

Treatment

factor denoting the treatment group

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

References

Amabile, T. (1985). Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 48(2): 393–399.

Examples

str(case0101)
boxplot(Score~Treatment, case0101)

Example output

'data.frame':	47 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ Score    : num  5 5.4 6.1 10.9 11.8 ...
 $ Treatment: Factor w/ 2 levels "Extrinsic","Intrinsic": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...

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