big_hairy_spider {discovr}R Documentation

Big hairy spider data

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2026). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

big_hairy_spider

Format

A tibble with 24 rows and 3 variables.

Details

Is arachnophobia (fear of spiders) specific to real spiders or will pictures of spiders evoke similar levels of anxiety? Twelve arachnophobes were asked to play with a big hairy tarantula with big fangs and an evil look in its eight eyes and at a different point in time were shown only photos of the same spider. The participants' anxiety was measured in each case. The (fictional) data contains the following variables:

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/big_hairy_spider.csv


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