comma_survey

The raw data behind the story
"Elitist, Superfluous, Or Popular? We Polled Americans on the Oxford Comma"
<a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/elitist-superfluous-or-popular-we-polled-americans-on-the-oxford-comma/">https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/elitist-superfluous-or-popular-we-polled-americans-on-the-oxford-comma/</a>.

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'FiveThirtyEight' available at <https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data>.
Note that while we received guidance from editors at 'FiveThirtyEight', this
package is not officially published by 'FiveThirtyEight'.

Albert Y Kim

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Chester Ismay

Jennifer Chunn

Meredith Manley

Maggie Shea

Starry Yujia Zhou

Andrew Flowers

Jonathan Bouchet

G. Elliott Morris

Adam Spannbauer

Pradeep Adhokshaja

Olivia Barrows

Jojo Miller

Jayla Nakayama

Ben Baumer

Rana Gahwagy

Natalia Iannucci

Marium Tapal

Irene Ryan

Alina Barylsky

Danica Miguel

Sunni Raleigh

Anna Ballou

Jane Bang

Jordan Moody

Kara Van Allen

Jessica Keast

Lizette Carpenter

Fatima Keita

comma_survey function

A data frame with 1129 rows representing respondents and 13 variables:<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt>respondent_id</dt><dd>Respondent ID</dd>
 <dt>gender</dt><dd>Gender</dd>
 <dt>age</dt><dd>Age</dd>
 <dt>household_income</dt><dd>Household income bracket</dd>
 <dt>education</dt><dd>Education level</dd>
 <dt>location</dt><dd>Location (census region)</dd>
 <dt>more_grammar_correct</dt><dd>In your opinion, which sentence is more grammatically correct?</dd>
 <dt>heard_oxford_comma</dt><dd>Prior to reading about it above, had you heard of the serial (or Oxford) comma?</dd>
 <dt>care_oxford_comma</dt><dd>How much, if at all, do you care about the use (or lack thereof) of the serial (or Oxford) comma in grammar?</dd>
 <dt>write_following</dt><dd>How would you write the following sentence?</dd>
 <dt>data_singular_plural</dt><dd>When faced with using the word "data", have you ever spent time considering if the word was a singular or plural noun?</dd>
 <dt>care_data</dt><dd>How much, if at all, do you care about the debate over the use of the word "data" as a singular or plural noun?</dd>
 <dt>care_proper_grammar</dt><dd>In your opinion, how important or unimportant is proper use of grammar?</dd>
</dl>

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The raw data behind the story
"Elitist, Superfluous, Or Popular? We Polled Americans on the Oxford Comma"
<a href='https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/elitist-superfluous-or-popular-we-polled-americans-on-the-oxford-comma/'>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/elitist-superfluous-or-popular-we-polled-americans-on-the-oxford-comma/</a>.

Elitist, Superfluous, Or Popular? We Polled Americans on the Oxford Comma — comma_survey

A data frame with 1129 rows representing respondents and 13 variables:<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt>respondent_id</dt><dd>Respondent ID</dd>
 <dt>gender</dt><dd>Gender</dd>
 <dt>age</dt><dd>Age</dd>
 <dt>household_income</dt><dd>Household income bracket</dd>
 <dt>education</dt><dd>Education level</dd>
 <dt>location</dt><dd>Location (census region)</dd>
 <dt>more_grammar_correct</dt><dd>In your opinion, which sentence is more grammatically correct?</dd>
 <dt>heard_oxford_comma</dt><dd>Prior to reading about it above, had you heard of the serial (or Oxford) comma?</dd>
 <dt>care_oxford_comma</dt><dd>How much, if at all, do you care about the use (or lack thereof) of the serial (or Oxford) comma in grammar?</dd>
 <dt>write_following</dt><dd>How would you write the following sentence?</dd>
 <dt>data_singular_plural</dt><dd>When faced with using the word "data", have you ever spent time considering if the word was a singular or plural noun?</dd>
 <dt>care_data</dt><dd>How much, if at all, do you care about the debate over the use of the word "data" as a singular or plural noun?</dd>
 <dt>care_proper_grammar</dt><dd>In your opinion, how important or unimportant is proper use of grammar?</dd>
</dl>

Elitist, Superfluous, Or Popular? We Polled Americans on the Oxford Comma

comma_survey: Elitist, Superfluous, Or Popular? We Polled Americans on the Oxford Comma

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