Sample dataset contain 23 questions as variables and around 2751 rows of data. Each question is answered in scale of 1 to 5.
| Rating | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1 | Strongly Agree |
| 2 | Agree |
| 3 | Niether |
| 4 | Disagree |
| 5 | Strongly Disagree |
| Variable | Position | Label |
|---|---|---|
| stat_cry | 1 | Statiscs makes me cry |
| afraid_spss | 2 | My friends will think I'm stupid for not being able to cope with SPSS |
| sd_excite | 3 | Standard deviations excite me |
| nmare_pearson | 4 | I dream that Pearson is attacking me with correlation coefficients |
| du_stat | 5 | I don't understand statistics |
| lexp_comp | 6 | I have little experience of computers |
| comp_hate | 7 | All computers hate me |
| good_math | 8 | I have never been good at mathematics |
| frs_better_stat | 9 | My friends are better at statistics than me |
| com_for_games | 10 | Computers are useful only for playing games |
| bad_math | 11 | I did badly at mathematics at school |
| spss_no_help | 12 | People try to tell you that SPSS makes statistics easier to understand but it doesn't |
| damaging_comp | 13 | I worry that I will cause irreparable damage because of my incompetenece with computers |
| comp_alive | 14 | Computers have minds of their own and deliberately go wrong whenever I use them |
| comp_getme | 15 | Computers are out to get me |
| weep_ct | 16 | I weep openly at the mention of central tendency |
| slip_coma | 17 | I slip into a coma whenever I see an equation |
| spss_crash | 18 | SPSS always crashes when I try to use it |
| eb_looks | 19 | Everybody looks at me when I use SPSS |
| no_sleep_ev | 20 | I can't sleep for thoughts of eigen vectors |
| nm_normdist | 21 | I wake up under my duvet thinking that I am trapped under a normal distribtion |
| frs_better_spss | 22 | My friends are better at SPSS than I am |
| stat_nerd | 23 | If I'm good at statistics my friends will think I'm a nerd |