bugs_long: Tidy version of the "Bugs" dataset.

In statsExpressions: Tidy Dataframes and Expressions with Statistical Details

Tidy version of the "Bugs" dataset.

Description

Tidy version of the "Bugs" dataset.

Usage

bugs_long

Format

A data frame with 372 rows and 6 variables

• subject. Dummy identity number for each participant.

• gender. Participant's gender (Female, Male).

• region. Region of the world the participant was from.

• education. Level of education.

• condition. Condition of the experiment the participant gave rating for (LDLF: low disgustingness and low frighteningness; LDHF: low disgustingness and high frighteningness; HDLF: high disgustingness and low frighteningness; HDHF: high disgustingness and high frighteningness).

• desire. The desire to kill an arthropod was indicated on a scale from 0 to 10.

Details

This data set, "Bugs", provides the extent to which men and women want to kill arthropods that vary in frighteningness (low, high) and disgustingness (low, high). Each participant rates their attitudes towards all arthropods. Subset of the data reported by Ryan et al. (2013).

References

Ryan, R. S., Wilde, M., & Crist, S. (2013). Compared to a small, supervised lab experiment, a large, unsupervised web-based experiment on a previously unknown effect has benefits that outweigh its potential costs. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(4), 1295-1301.

Examples

dim(bugs_long)
head(bugs_long)
dplyr::glimpse(bugs_long)

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