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B-Course provides a public domain data sets called Popular Kids so that one can try out B-Course without own data. Below you can find some details of the example data set.
Subjects were 478 students in grades 4-6 from three school districts in Ingham and Clinton Counties, Michigan. Researchers stratified their sample, selecting students from urban, suburban, and rural school districts with approximately 1/3 of their sample coming from each district. Students indicated whether good grades, athletic ability, or popularity was most important to them. They also ranked four factors: grades, sports, looks, and money, in order of their importance for popularity. The questionnaire also asked for gender, grade level, and other demographic information.
The question the students was asked was:
Which of the following would make you popular among your friends? Rank in order.
| A | Making good grades. |
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| B | Having lots of money. |
| C | Being good at sports. |
| D | Being handsome or pretty. |
The data consists of the following eleven variables:
| 1. | Gender: | Boy or girl |
| 2. | Grade: | 4, 5 or 6 |
| 3. | Age: | Age in years |
| 4. | Race: | White, Other |
| 5. | Urban/Rural: | Rural, Suburban, or Urban school district |
| 6. | School: | Brentwood Elementary, Brentwood Middle, Ridge, Sand, Eureka, Brown, Main, Portage, Westdale Middle |
| 7. | Goals: | Student's choice in the personal goals question where options were 1 = Make Good Grades, 2 = Be Popular, 3 = Be Good in Sports |
| 8. | Grades: | Rank of "make good grades" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important) |
| 9. | Sports: | Rank of "being good at sports" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important) |
| 10. | Looks: | Rank of "being handsome or pretty" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important) |
| 11. | Money: | Rank of "having lots of money" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important) |
Reference:
Chase, M. A., and Dummer, G. M. (1992),
"The Role of Sports as a Social Determinant for Children,"
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 63, 418-424
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