Description
A data set simulated to match the summary statistics and conclusions from
Rosenthal and Jacobson's Pygmalion study on elementary school students. The
researchers assigned students at random to a pygmalion or control treatment
group. They supplied information to the teachers of those in the pygmalion
group with the false information that an intelligence test had indicated that
the student was likely to excel. The researchers wished to see if the change
in intelligence test scores for the students tended to be larger for those
students labeled as likely to excel.source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.References
Rosenthal, R. and Jacobson, L. 1968, Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher
Expectation and Pupil's Intellectual Development, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston,
Inc.