On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <yarikop...@gmail.com> wrote: > ;-) Let's check where factual ends and fictional/personal/etc starts > and how easy to tell. > > Are survey data asking for answers to specifically crafted original > questions (i.e. not just age/race/etc) factual? e.g. > > \title{The Chatterjee--Price Attitude Data} > \description{ > From a survey of the clerical employees of a large financial > organization, the data are aggregated from the questionnaires of the > approximately 35 employees for each of 30 (randomly selected) > departments. The numbers give the percent proportion of favourable > responses to seven questions in each department.} > \usage{attitude}
I don't see how their could be any confusion here - it is a fact whether or not someone made a favourable response to a question. I agree that there might be murky areas, but I don't think this is one. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel