FRIEND:
Friendship Potential vs. Attractiveness Ratings
Description
Examining the relationship between how likely someone would be friends with a person based on that person's level of attractiveness
Format
A data frame with 54 observations on the following 2 variables.
Source
Surveys administered to introductory statistics students at the University of Tennessee from 2008-2010.Details
The data contain information on 54 pictures of women posted on the (now defunct/renamed) site hotornot.com. The women in two classes of introductory statistics at the University of Tennessee rated how likely they would be friends with the pictured women (on a scale of 1-5, 1 being very unlikely and 5 being very likely). The men in three (different) classes of introductory statistics gave an attractiveness score to each woman (on a scale of 1-5, 1 being very unattractive and 5 being very attractive). The numbers presented are the averages over all student ratings.