profile_pic: Profile picture data

In profandyfield/discovr: Interactive Tutorials and Data for "Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio"

Profile picture data

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2023). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

profile_pic

Format

A tibble with 80 rows and 4 variables.

Details

A researcher was interested in the effect of profile pictures on social media on unsolicited attention. She took 40 people who had profiles on a social networking website; 17 of them had a relationship status of 'single' and the remaining 23 had their status as 'in a relationship'. We asked these people to set their profile picture to a photo of them on their own (alone) and to count how many friend request they got from random strangers over 3 weeks, then to switch it to a photo of them very obviously as part of a romantic couple and record their friend requests from random strangers over 3 weeks. The (fictional) data contains the following variables:

• id: Participant id

• rel_status: Whether the participant's relationship status is 'single' or 'in a relationship'

• profile_pic: Whether the participant's profile picture depicts them alone or as part of a couple

• requests: The number of unsolicited friend requests (in 3 weeks) from random strangers who categorise their sexual orientation such that they are interested in people of the gender of the participant

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/profile_pic.csv

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