metal {discovr}R Documentation

Metal music and anger

Description

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

Usage

metal

Format

A tibble with 90 rows and 4 variables.

Details

People have claimed that listening to heavy metal, because of its aggressive sonic palette and often violent or emotionally negative lyrics, leads to angry and aggressive behaviour. As a very non-violent metal fan this accusation bugs me (BTW there are some real data on this in sharman_2015). Imagine I designed a study to test this possibility. I took groups of self-classifying metalheads and non-metalheads (fan) and assigned them randomly to listen to 15 minutes of either the sound of an angle grinder scraping a sheet of metal (control noise), metal music, or pop music (soundtrack). Each person rated their anger on a scale ranging from 0 (All you need is love, da, da, da-da-da) to 100 (—- me, I'm all out of enemies). These data are fictitious.

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/metal.csv


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