pulse_of_the_nation: Cards Against Humanity's Pulse of the Nation Survey
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pulse_of_the_nation

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Cards Against Humanity's Pulse of the Nation Survey

Description

Cards Against Humanity's "Pulse of the Nation" project (https://thepulseofthenation.com/) conducted monthly polls into people's social and political views, as well as some silly things. This data includes responses to a subset of questions included in the poll conducted in September 2017.

Usage

pulse_of_the_nation

Format

A data frame with observations on 1000 survey respondents with 15 variables:

income: income in \$1000s
age: age in years
party: political party affiliation
trump_approval: approval level of Donald Trump's job performance
education: maximum education level completed
robots: opinion of how likely their job is to be replaced by robots within 10 years
climate_change: belief in climate change
transformers: the number of Transformers film the respondent has seen
science_is_honest: opinion of whether scientists are generally honest and serve the public good
vaccines_are_safe: opinion of whether vaccines are safe and protect children from disease
books: number of books read in the past year
ghosts: whether or not they believe in ghosts
fed_sci_budget: respondent's estimate of the percentage of the federal budget that is spent on scientific research
earth_sun: belief about whether the earth is always farther away from the sun in winter than in summer (TRUE or FALSE)
wise_unwise: whether the respondent would rather be wise but unhappy, or unwise but happy