cab: Data from Cooke, Adams, and Buchanan's (2011) study of the...
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Respondents to an online survey read descriptions of 6 crimes. For each crime, they were asked to rate the likelihood that each of three names committed the crime (1 = least likely, 6 = most likely) where the names were manipulated to suggest race.

data(cab)

A data frame with 32 observations on the following 31 variables.

Age: a numeric vector
Ethnicity: a factor with levels Caucasian HIspanic African American Other
Gender: a factor with levels Male Female
PC1: Property crime (investment fraud) by Caucasian (Wilbur Franks), version 1
PA1: Property crime (investment fraud) by African American (Tyrone Jones), version 1
PH1: Property crime (investment fraud) by Hispanic (Eduardo Flores), version 1
DH1: Drug crime (possession of illegal drugs) by Hispanic (Roberto Ortiz), version 1
DC1: Drug crime (possession of illegal drugs) by Caucasian (Ian Williams), version 1
DA1: Drug crime (possession of illegal drugs) by African American (Lamar Wardell), version 1
VA1: Violent crime (aggravated assault with a deadly weapon) by African American (Rashan Smith), version 1
VC1: Violent crime (aggravated assault with a deadly weapon) by Caucasian (Greg Adams), version 1
VH1: Violent crime (aggravated assault with a deadly weapon) by Hispanic (Mario Mendoza), version 1
VC2: Violent crime (sexual battery of the first degree) by Caucasian (Brandon Walters), version 2
VH2: Violent crime (sexual battery of the first degree) by Hispanic (Esteban Dominguez), version 2
VA2: Violent crime (sexual battery of the first degree) by African American (Malik Bryant), version 2
PA2: Property crime (burglary) by African American (Dion Carter) version 2
PC2: Property crime (burglary) by Caucasian (Gary Robertson), version 2
PH2: Property crime (burglary) by Hispanic (Arturo Guitierrez), version 2
DH2: Drug crime (selling illegal drugs) by Hispanic (Cesar de la Cruz), version 2
DC2: Drug crime (selling illegal drugs) by Caucasian (Paul Reynolds
DA2: Drug crime (selling illegal drugs) by African American (Marcellus Hudson)
PC: The average of PC1 and PC2
PA: The average of PA1 and PA2
PH: The average of PH1 and PH2
DC: The average of DC1 and DC2
DA: The average of DA1 and DA2
DH: The average of DH1 and DH2
VC: The average of VC1 and VC2
VA: The average of VA1 and VA2
VH: The average of VH1 and VH2
subj: Subject identification numbers, integers 1 to 32

This study was conducted as part of a course project in the winter 2011 semester of social psychology at Hanover College. Ally Cooke, Angie Adams, and Raquel Buchanan investigated the interaction of race of defendant and type of crime on respondents' perceptions of how likely each defendant was to have committed the crime. Thirty-two respondents to an online survey were presented with a crime category (e.g., "found guilty of investment fraud" and rated the likelihood that each of three defendants committed the crime, where 1 = least likely and 6 = most likely. The crime categories were Property, Drug, and Violent, and the names of the defendants were manipulated to suggest race (Caucasian, African-American, and Hispanic). The design was a 3 (race: Caucasian, Hispanic, African-American) by 3 (crime: Drug, Property, Violent) completely within-subjects design.

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