R/OBJECT_dating.R

In sebastiansauer/pradadata: Data Sets for Practical Data Analysis

#' Results from an experiment on status symbols an dating success
#'
#' @docType data
#' @keywords datasets
#'
#' @usage data(dating)
#'
#' @description Data from an online dating/mating app experiment with IV "car as status symbol"
#' (yes vs. no) and DV1 "matching" (number) and DV2 "message sent" (number).
#' The principal research question was whether a luxury sports car (BMW Z4)
#' on the individual profile portrait photo at an online dating app
#' would have an influence on the number of contact requests
#' and messages sent to this profile.
#' Care was taken that the profiles showed no difference besides the car.
#'
#'
#'
#' @format A data frame containing 5063 rows and 7 columns
#' \describe{
#'   \item{strawperson}{Chr. DThere were 6 straw persons. ie., persons with a profile on the dating portal}
#'   \item{sex}{Chr. Sex of strawperson}
#'   \item{car}{Int. Whether a luxury sports car was on the profile picture or not}
#'   \item{date}{Chr. Date mm/dd/yyyy}
#'   \item{Age}{Int. Age}
#'   \item{ID_hash}{Chr. Username anonymized}
#'   \item{comm_type}{Type of communication by individuals: either matching or contact message}
#'   \item{whr}{Numeric. Waist hip ratio of strawperson}
#'   \item{beauty}{Subjective beauty rating of strawperson by rating committee}
#'  }
#' @details This dataset was published here: \url{https://osf.io/4hkjm/}.
#' @source Please cite this dataset as: 'Sauer, S., & Wolff, A. (2016, August 16). The effect of status symbols on success in online dating: an experimental study. Retrieved from osf.io/4hkjm'


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