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The Teaching of Statistics for Scientific Experiments—Revised (TOSSE-R) data

Description

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

Usage

tosser

Format

A tibble with 239 rows and 29 variables.

Details

Fictitious data relating to a fictional questionnaire about The Teaching of Statistics for Scientific Experiments. Again, I stress that this example is fictional. I thought the name of the questionnaire would give it away, I mean, no-one is calling a questionnaire TOSSER are they? Don't email me for the questionnaire, it's all made up, you definitley don't want to base your research upon it. Imagine I wanted to revise the 'Teaching of Statistics for Scientific Experiments' (TOSSE) questionnaire, which is (I mean, it isn't because I made it up) based on Bland's theory that says that good research methods lecturers should have: (1) a profound love of statistics; (2) an enthusiasm for experimental design; (3) a love of teaching; and (4) a complete absence of normal interpersonal skills. These characteristics should be related (i.e., correlated). The revised version of this questionnaire (TOSSE – R) was given to 239 research methods lecturers to see if it supported Bland's theory. 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). The data contains the following variables

• id: The student's id

• q_01: responses (1-5) to the question I once woke up in the middle of a vegetable patch hugging a turnip that I'd mistakenly dug up thinking it was Roy's largest root

• q_02: responses (1-5) to the question Students are like irritating pigeons pecking away at my sanity

• q_03: responses (1-5) to the question I memorize probability values for the F-distribution

• q_04: responses (1-5) to the question I worship at the shrine of Pearson

• q_05: responses (1-5) to the question I still live with my mother and have little personal hygiene

• q_06: responses (1-5) to the question Teaching others makes me want to swallow a large bottle of bleach because the pain of my burning oesophagus would be light relief in comparison

• q_07: responses (1-5) to the question Helping others to understand sums of squares is a great feeling

• q_08: responses (1-5) to the question I like control conditions

• q_09: responses (1-5) to the question I calculate 3 ANOVAs in my head before getting out of bed every morning

• q_10: responses (1-5) to the question I could spend all day explaining statistics to people

• q_11: responses (1-5) to the question I like it when people tell me I've helped them to understand factor rotation

• q_12: responses (1-5) to the question People fall asleep as soon as I open my mouth to speak

• q_13: responses (1-5) to the question Designing experiments is fun

• q_14: responses (1-5) to the question I'd rather think about appropriate dependent variables than meet people

• q_15: responses (1-5) to the question I soil my pants with excitement at the mention of Factor Analysis

• q_16: responses (1-5) to the question Thinking about whether to use repeated- or independent-measures thrills me

• q_17: responses (1-5) to the question I enjoy sitting in the park contemplating whether to use participant observation in my next experiment

• q_18: responses (1-5) to the question Standing in front of 300 people in no way makes me lose control of my bowels

• q_19: responses (1-5) to the question I like to help students

• q_20: responses (1-5) to the question Passing on knowledge is the greatest gift you can bestow an individual

• q_21: responses (1-5) to the question Thinking about Bonferroni corrections gives me a tingly feeling in my groin

• q_22: responses (1-5) to the question I quiver with excitement when thinking about designing my next experiment

• q_23: responses (1-5) to the question I often spend my spare time talking to the pigeons ... and even they die of boredom

• q_24: responses (1-5) to the question I tried to build myself a time machine so that I could go back to the 1930s and follow Fisher around on my hands and knees licking the floor on which he'd just trodden

• q_25: responses (1-5) to the question I love teaching

• q_26: responses (1-5) to the question I spend lots of time helping students

• q_27: responses (1-5) to the question I love teaching because students have to pretend to like me or they'll get bad marks

• q_28: responses (1-5) to the question My cat is my only friend

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/tosser.csv

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