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Tidy version of the "Bugs" dataset.

Usage

bugs_long

Format

A data frame with 372 rows and 6 variables

  • subject. Dummy identity number for each participant.

  • gender. Participant's gender (Female, Male).

  • region. Region of the world the participant was from.

  • education. Level of education.

  • condition. Condition of the experiment the participant gave rating for (LDLF: low freighteningness and low disgustingness; LFHD: low freighteningness and high disgustingness; HFHD: high freighteningness and low disgustingness; HFHD: high freighteningness and high disgustingness).

  • desire. The desire to kill an arthropod was indicated on a scale from 0 to 10.

Details

This data set, "Bugs", provides the extent to which men and women want to kill arthropods that vary in freighteningness (low, high) and disgustingness (low, high). Each participant rates their attitudes towards all anthropods. Subset of the data reported by Ryan et al. (2013).

References

Ryan, R. S., Wilde, M., & Crist, S. (2013). Compared to a small, supervised lab experiment, a large, unsupervised web-based experiment on a previously unknown effect has benefits that outweigh its potential costs. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(4), 1295-1301.

Examples

dim(bugs_long)
#> [1] 372   6
head(bugs_long)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 6
#>   subject gender region        education condition desire
#>     <int> <fct>  <fct>         <fct>     <chr>      <dbl>
#> 1       1 Female North America some      LDLF           6
#> 2       2 Female North America advance   LDLF          10
#> 3       3 Female Europe        college   LDLF           5
#> 4       4 Female North America college   LDLF           6
#> 5       5 Female North America some      LDLF           3
#> 6       6 Female Europe        some      LDLF           2
dplyr::glimpse(bugs_long)
#> Rows: 372
#> Columns: 6
#> $ subject   <int> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 1…
#> $ gender    <fct> Female, Female, Female, Female, Female, Female, Female, Fema…
#> $ region    <fct> North America, North America, Europe, North America, North A…
#> $ education <fct> some, advance, college, college, some, some, some, high, hig…
#> $ condition <chr> "LDLF", "LDLF", "LDLF", "LDLF", "LDLF", "LDLF", "LDLF", "LDL…
#> $ desire    <dbl> 6.0, 10.0, 5.0, 6.0, 3.0, 2.0, 10.0, 10.0, 9.5, 8.5, 0.0, 9.…