sex_temp: Effect of temperature on performance by sex

sex_tempR Documentation

Effect of temperature on performance by sex

Description

Results from test given at various temperature to males and females.

Usage

sex_temp

Format

A data frame with 543 observations of 30 variables.

session

There were 24 sessions consisting of 14-25 tests.

temp

Temperature of room in degrees Celsius.

crt

Participants had 5 minutes to answer three original CRT questions introduced by S. Frederick. Number of correct answers reported.

mathreported

Number of math questions answered.

mathcorrect

Number of math questions correctly answered.

mathmistakes

Number of math questions incorrectly answered.

wordstotalreported

Number of words (in German) built from letters ADEHINRSTU in five mminutes. Rewards for longer words.

wordstotalcorrect

Number of words that were correctly built.

wordsmistakes

Number of words that were incorrect.

repeats

Not described in the paper. Possibly number of words that were repeated.

word[2-9]

Not described. Probably the lengths of the correct words, where wordx contains x letters.

male

1 if male, 0 if female. Experiment only allowed for those choices.

age

Self-reported age of participant.

majorecon

1 if econ major, 0 if not an econ major.

nativegerman

1 if native German speaker

enjoymath

On scale from 0 to 10, how much did you enjoy math task?

enjoywords

On scale from 0 to 10, how much did you enjoy the words task?

strongme-month

None of these columns seem to be described in paper.

Details

From the authors: "The fact that women generally prefer higher indoor temperatures than men is well supported by survey evidence. This difference in preferences, sometimes referred to as the “battle of the thermostat,” is passionately discussed in popular culture and has received considerable media attention. Surprisingly then, the research examining the impact of temperature on cognitive performance has not explored a link between gender and temperature response."

Source

Chang TY, Kajackaite A (2019) Battle for the thermostat: Gender and the effect of temperature on cognitive performance. PLoS ONE 14(5): e0216362. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216362


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