comma_survey: Elitist, Superfluous, Or Popular? We Polled Americans on the...

comma_surveyR Documentation

Elitist, Superfluous, Or Popular? We Polled Americans on the Oxford Comma

Description

The raw data behind the story "Elitist, Superfluous, Or Popular? We Polled Americans on the Oxford Comma" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/elitist-superfluous-or-popular-we-polled-americans-on-the-oxford-comma/.

Usage

comma_survey

Format

A data frame with 1129 rows representing respondents and 13 variables:

respondent_id

Respondent ID

gender

Gender

age

Age

household_income

Household income bracket

education

Education level

location

Location (census region)

more_grammar_correct

In your opinion, which sentence is more grammatically correct?

heard_oxford_comma

Prior to reading about it above, had you heard of the serial (or Oxford) comma?

care_oxford_comma

How much, if at all, do you care about the use (or lack thereof) of the serial (or Oxford) comma in grammar?

write_following

How would you write the following sentence?

data_singular_plural

When faced with using the word "data", have you ever spent time considering if the word was a singular or plural noun?

care_data

How much, if at all, do you care about the debate over the use of the word "data" as a singular or plural noun?

care_proper_grammar

In your opinion, how important or unimportant is proper use of grammar?

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/comma-survey.


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