ex0222: Male and Female Intelligence

Description Usage Format Source References See Also Examples

Description

These data are armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) score percentiles and component test scores in arithmetic reasoning, word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, and mathematical knowledge for a sample of 1,278 U.S. women and 1,306 U.S. men in 1981.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 2,584 observations on the following 6 variables.

Gender

a factor with levels "female" and "male"

Arith

score on the arithmetic reasoning component of the AFQT test

Word

score on the word knowledge component

Parag

score on the paragraph comprehension component

Math

score on the mathematical knowledge component

AFQT

percentile score on the AFQT test

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.

References

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/nls/home.htm (May 8, 2008).

See Also

ex0330, ex0331, ex0524, ex0525, ex0828, ex0923, ex1033, ex1223

Examples

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Example output

'data.frame':	2584 obs. of  6 variables:
 $ Gender: Factor w/ 2 levels "female","male": 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 ...
 $ Arith : int  19 23 30 30 13 8 10 4 12 3 ...
 $ Word  : int  27 34 35 35 30 15 17 17 33 11 ...
 $ Parag : int  14 11 14 13 11 6 6 6 13 5 ...
 $ Math  : int  14 20 25 21 12 4 7 6 11 6 ...
 $ AFQT  : num  70.3 60.4 98.3 84.7 44.5 4 11.8 8.9 44.7 2.8 ...

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