languageR (version 1.0)

ratings: Ratings for 81 English nouns

Description

Subjective frequency ratings, ratings of estimated weight, and ratings of estimated size, averaged over subjects, for 81 concrete English nouns.

Usage

data(ratings)

source

Data collected together with Jen Hay at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2004.

Examples

data(ratings)

ratings.lm = lm(meanSizeRating ~ meanFamiliarity * Class + 
I(meanFamiliarity^2), data = ratings)

ratings$fitted = fitted(ratings.lm)

plot(ratings$meanFamiliarity, ratings$meanSizeRating,       
xlab = "mean familiarity", ylab = "mean size rating", type = "n")
text(ratings$meanFamiliarity, ratings$meanSizeRating, 
substr(as.character(ratings$Class), 1, 1), col = 'darkgrey')

plants = ratings[ratings$Class == "plant", ]    
animals = ratings[ratings$Class == "animal", ]  
plants = plants[order(plants$meanFamiliarity),]
animals = animals[order(animals$meanFamiliarity),]

lines(plants$meanFamiliarity, plants$fitted)
lines(animals$meanFamiliarity, animals$fitted)