text_messages: Messaging apps and grammar example

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Messaging apps and grammar example

Description

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

Usage

text_messages

Format

A tibble with 100 rows and 4 variables

Details

Text messaging and Twitter encourage communication using abbreviated forms of words (if u no wat I mean). A researcher wanted to see the effect this had on children’s understanding of grammar. One group of 25 children was encouraged to send text messages on their mobile phones over a 6-month period. A second group of 25 was forbidden from sending text messages for the same period (to ensure adherence, this group were given armbands that administered painful shocks in the presence of a phone signal). The outcome was a score on a grammatical test (as a percentage) that was measured both before and after the experiment. The (fictional) data contains the following variables:

• id: participant ID

• group: whether the participant was assigned to the text message group or control group

• time: the time at which grammar ability was measured (baseline or 6 months later)

• grammar: the score on the grammar test as a percentage (%)

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/speed_date.csv

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