speeddate: Speed dating
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speeddate

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Speed dating

Description

A subset of cases (wave 6-9) and variables (see below) from an experiment on speed dating. by Columbia Business School professors Ray Fisman and Sheena Iyengar for their paper Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence From a Speed Dating Experiment.

Usage

speeddate

Format

A data frame with 1562 rows and 32 variables:

iid: (numeric) unique ID variable of participant
pid: (numeric) unique ID variable of date partner
gender: (character) gender of participant (male or female)
age: (numeric) age in years
date_like: (numeric) how much they like their date partner in general (between 1 and 10)
other_like: (numeric) how much their date partner likes them (between 1 and 10)
date_want: do they want to go on another date with their date partner? (1 = yes, 0 = no)
other_want: does their date partner want to go on another date with them? (1 = yes, 0 = no)
match: do they both want to go on another date with each other? (1 = yes, 0 = no)
self_attr: how attractive do they think they are? (between 1 and 10)
self_sinc: how sincere do they think they are? (between 1 and 10)
self_intel: how intelligent do they think they are? (between 1 and 10)
self_fun: how much fun do they think they are? (between 1 and 10)
self_amb: how ambitious do they think they are? (between 1 and 10)
other_attr,other_sinc,other_intel,other_fun,other_amb: how attractive etc does their date partner think they are? (between 1 and 10)
other_shar: how much does their date partner think they share hobbies and interests? (between 1 and 10)
date_attr,date_sinc,date_intel,date_fun,date_amb,date_shar: how do they rate their date partner's attractiveness etc? (between 1 and 10)
self_imp_attr,self_imp_sinc,self_imp_intel,self_imp_fun,self_imp_amb,self_imp_shar: how important do they find attractiveness etc in a partner? (between 1 and 10)
other_imp_attr,other_imp_sinc,other_imp_intel,other_imp_fun,other_imp_amb,other_imp_shar: how important does their date partner find attractiveness etc? (between 1 and 10)