raq: R Anxiety Questionnaire (RAQ)

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R Anxiety Questionnaire (RAQ)

Description

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

Usage

raq

Format

A tibble with 2,571 rows and 24 variables.

Details

Fictitious data relating to a fictional questionnaire about R anxiety. I can't stress enough how fictional this example is. Like, don't email me for the questionnaire the whole thing is figment of my mind (and some data simulation). I thought this would be obvious from the questions, but apparently not. Imagine that I wanted to design a questionnaire to measure a trait that I termed 'R anxiety'. I devised a questionnaire to measure various aspects of students' anxiety towards learning R, the RAQ. I generated (in my imagination) questions based on interviews (that never happened in real life) with anxious and non-anxious students and came up with 23 possible questions to include. Each question was a statement followed by a five-point Likert scale: strongly disagree = 1, disagree, neither agree nor disagree, agree and strongly agree (SD, D, N, A and SA respectively). What's more, I wanted to know whether anxiety about R could be broken down into specific forms of anxiety. In other words, what latent variables contribute to anxiety about R?

With a little help from a few lecturer friends (this never happened in real life) I collected 2571 completed questionnaires. The data are stored in this object with 2,571 rows and 24 columns.

• id: The student's id

• raq_01: responses (1-5) to the question Statistics make me cry

• raq_02: responses (1-5) to the question My friends will think I'm stupid for not being able to cope with R

• raq_03: responses (1-5) to the question Standard deviations excite me

• raq_04: responses (1-5) to the question I dream that Pearson is attacking me with correlation coefficients

• raq_05: responses (1-5) to the question I don't understand statistics

• raq_06: responses (1-5) to the question I have little experience of computers

• raq_07: responses (1-5) to the question All computers hate me

• raq_08: responses (1-5) to the question I have never been good at mathematics

• raq_09: responses (1-5) to the question My friends are better at statistics than me

• raq_10: responses (1-5) to the question Computers are useful only for playing games

• raq_11: responses (1-5) to the question I did badly at mathematics at school

• raq_12: responses (1-5) to the question People try to tell you that R makes statistics easier to understand but it doesn't

• raq_13: responses (1-5) to the question I worry that I will cause irreparable damage because of my incompetence with computers

• raq_14: responses (1-5) to the question Computers have minds of their own and deliberately go wrong whenever I use them

• raq_15: responses (1-5) to the question Computers are out to get me

• raq_16: responses (1-5) to the question I weep openly at the mention of central tendency

• raq_17: responses (1-5) to the question I slip into a coma whenever I see an equation

• raq_18: responses (1-5) to the question R always crashes when I try to use it

• raq_19: responses (1-5) to the question Everybody looks at me when I use R

• raq_20: responses (1-5) to the question I can't sleep for thoughts of eigenvectors

• raq_21: responses (1-5) to the question I wake up under my duvet thinking that I am trapped under a normal distribution

• raq_22: responses (1-5) to the question My friends are better at R than I am

• raq_23: responses (1-5) to the question If I am good at statistics people will think I am a nerd

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/raq.csv

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