rollercoaster: Roaming cats data

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

Roaming cats data

Description

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

Usage

rollercoaster

Format

A tibble with 20 rows and 3 variables.

Details

Fictional data based on a study by Meston & Frohlich (2003) that showed that heterosexual people rate a picture of someone of the opposite sex as more attractive after riding a roller-coaster compared to before. Imagine we took 20 people as they came off the Rockit roller-coaster at Universal studios in Orlando and asked them to rate the attractiveness of people in a series of photographs on a scale of 0 (looks like Jabba the Hut) to 10 (looks like Princess Leia or Han Solo). The mean of their attractiveness ratings was the outcome. We also recorded their fear during the ride using a device that collates various indicators of physiological arousal and returns a value from 0, chill, to 10, terrified. This variable is the predictor. The prediction was that fear would be positively associated with ratings of attractiveness.

• id: Participant id

• attractiveness: Mean attractiveness rating people in a series of photographs from 0 (Jabba the Hut) to 10 (Princess Leia or Han Solo)

• fear: fear during the ride measured on a device that collates various indicators of physiological arousal into a value from 0, chill, to 10, terrified)

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/rollercoaster.csv

profandyfield/discovr documentation built on May 4, 2024, 4:32 p.m.