R/data-fact_opinion.R

In OpenIntroStat/openintro: Datasets and Supplemental Functions from 'OpenIntro' Textbooks and Labs

#' Can Americans categorize facts and opinions?
#'
#' Pew Research Center conducted a survey in 2018, asking a sample of
#' U.S. adults to categorize five factual and five opinion statements.
#' This dataset provides data from this survey, with information on the age
#' group of the participant as well as the number of factual and opinion
#' statements they classified correctly (out of 5).
#'
#' @format A data frame with 5,035 rows and 3 variables.
#' \describe{
#'   \item{age_group}{Age group of survey participant.}
#'   \item{fact_correct}{Number of factual statements classified correctly (out of 5).}
#'   \item{opinion_correct}{Number of opinion statements classified correctly (out of 5).}
#' }
#' @examples
#'
#' library(ggplot2)
#' library(dplyr)
#' library(tidyr)
#' library(forcats)
#'
#' # Distribution of fact_correct by age group
#' ggplot(fact_opinion, aes(x = age_group, y = fact_correct)) +
#'   geom_boxplot() +
#'   labs(
#'     x = "Age group",
#'     y = "Number correct (factual)",
#'     title = "Number of factual statements classified correctly by age group"
#'   )
#'
#' # Distribution of opinion_correct by age group
#' ggplot(fact_opinion, aes(x = age_group, y = opinion_correct)) +
#'   geom_boxplot() +
#'   labs(
#'     x = "Age group",
#'     y = "Number correct (opinion)",
#'     title = "Number of opinion statements classified correctly by age group"
#'   )
#'
#' # Replicating the figure from Pew report (see source for link)
#' fact_opinion |>
#'   mutate(
#'     facts = case_when(
#'       fact_correct <= 2 ~ "Two or fewer",
#'       fact_correct %in% c(3, 4) ~ "Three or four",
#'       fact_correct == 5 ~ "All five"
#'     ),
#'     facts = fct_relevel(facts, "Two or fewer", "Three or four", "All five"),
#'     opinions = case_when(
#'       opinion_correct <= 2 ~ "Two or fewer",
#'       opinion_correct %in% c(3, 4) ~ "Three or four",
#'       opinion_correct == 5 ~ "All five"
#'     ),
#'     opinions = fct_relevel(opinions, "Two or fewer", "Three or four", "All five")
#'   ) |>
#'   select(-fact_correct, -opinion_correct) |>
#'   pivot_longer(cols = -age_group, names_to = "question_type", values_to = "n_correct") |>
#'   ggplot(aes(y = fct_rev(age_group), fill = n_correct)) +
#'   geom_bar(position = "fill") +
#'   facet_wrap(~question_type, ncol = 1) +
#'   scale_fill_viridis_d(guide = guide_legend(reverse = TRUE)) +
#'   labs(
#'     x = "Proportion",
#'     y = "Age group",
#'     fill = "Number of\ncorrect\nclassifications"
#'   )
#' @source [Younger Americans are better than older Americans at telling factual news statements from opinions](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/10/23/younger-americans-are-better-than-older-americans-at-telling-factual-news-statements-from-opinions/), Pew Research Center, October 23, 2018.
#'
"fact_opinion"