FRIEND: Friendship Potential vs. Attractiveness Ratings

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

Examining the relationship between how likely someone would be friends with a person based on that person's level of attractiveness

Usage

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data("FRIEND")

Format

A data frame with 54 observations on the following 2 variables.

Attractiveness

a numeric vector - the average scores (1-5) from about 80 male students who rated the attractiveness of the women in each picture

FriendshipPotential

a numeric vector - the average scores (1-5) from about 30 female students who rated how likely they would be to be friends with the pictured woman

Details

The data contain information on 54 pictures of women posted on the (now defunct/renamed) site hotornot.com. The women in two classes of introductory statistics at the University of Tennessee rated how likely they would be friends with the pictured women (on a scale of 1-5, 1 being very unlikely and 5 being very likely). The men in three (different) classes of introductory statistics gave an attractiveness score to each woman (on a scale of 1-5, 1 being very unattractive and 5 being very attractive). The numbers presented are the averages over all student ratings.

Source

Surveys administered to introductory statistics students at the University of Tennessee from 2008-2010.


profpetrie/regclass documentation built on May 26, 2019, 8:33 a.m.