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Datasets of Data And Story Library, project illustrating use of basic statistic methods, converted to arff format by Hakan Kjellerstrand.
Source: TunedIT: http://tunedit.org/repo/DASL
DASL file http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/PopularKids.html
Students' Goals
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What Makes Kids Popular
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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Description: Subjects were students in grades 4-6 from three school districts in Ingham and Clinton Counties, Michigan. Chase and Dummer 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.
Number of cases: 478
Variable Names:
Gender: Boy or girl
Grade: 4, 5 or 6
Age: Age in years
Race: White, Other
Urban/Rural: Rural, Suburban, or Urban school district
School: Brentwood Elementary, Brentwood Middle, Ridge, Sand, Eureka, Brown, Main, Portage, Westdale Middle
Goals: Student's choice in the personal goals question where options were 1 = Make Good Grades, 2 = Be Popular, 3 = Be Good in Sports
Grades: Rank of "make good grades" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important)
Sports: Rank of "being good at sports" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important)
Looks: Rank of "being handsome or pretty" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important)
Money: Rank of "having lots of money" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important)