SpeedDating: Speed Dating

In Lock5Data: Datasets for "Statistics: UnLocking the Power of Data"

Description

Data from a sample of four minute speed dates.

Format

A dataset with 276 observations on the following 22 variables.

DecisionM	Would the male like another date? 1=yes 0=no
DecisionF	Would the female like another date? 1=yes 0=no
LikeM	How much the male likes his partner (1-10 scale)
LikeF	How much the female likes her partner (1-10 scale)
PartnerYesM	Male's estimate of chance the female wants another date (1-10 scale)
PartnerYesF	Female's estimate of chance the male wants another date (1-10 scale)
AgeM	Male's age (in years)
AgeF	Females age (in years)
RaceM	Male's race: Asian Black Caucasian Latino Other
RaceF	Female's race: Asian Black Caucasian Latino Other
AttractiveM	Male's rating of female's attractiveness (1-10 scale)
AttractiveF	Female's rating of male's attractiveness (1-10 scale)
SincereM	Male's rating of female's sincerity (1-10 scale)
SincereF	Female's rating of male's sincerity (1-10 scale)
IntelligentM	Male's rating of female's intelligence (1-10 scale)
IntelligentF	Female's rating of male's intelligence (1-10 scale)
FunM	Male's rating of female as fun (1-10 scale)
FunF	Female's rating of male as fun (1-10 scale)
AmbitiousM	Male's rating of female's ambition (1-10 scale)
AmbitiousF	Female's rating of male's ambition (1-10 scale)
SharedInterestsM	Male's rating of female's shared interests (1-10 scale)
SharedInterestsF	Female's rating of male's shared interests (1-10 scale)

Details

Participants were students at Columbia's graduate and professional schools, recruited by mass email, posted fliers, and fliers handed out by research assistants. Each participant attended one speed dating session, in which they met with each participant of the opposite sex for four minutes. Order and session assignments were randomly determined. After each four minute "speed date," participants filled out a form rating their date on a scale of 1-10 on various attributes. Only data from the first date in each session is recorded here.

Source

Gelman, A. and Hill, J., Data analysis using regression and multilevel/hierarchical models, Cambridge University Press: New York, 2007

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