smdata (version 1.2)

intervalbeta: Lower and upper probability estimates

Description

Lower and upper probability estimates provided by the Busdecu et al. (2009) respondents in their interpretations of the phrase ``very likely'' in an IPCC report statement, along with dummy variables indicating the experimental condition.

Usage

data("intervalbeta")

Format

A data frame with 220 observations on the following 5 variables.

t

a numeric vector taking the value 1 if the respondent is in the Translation condition, and 0 otherwise

n

a numeric vector taking the value 1 if the respondent is in the Narrow condition, and 0 otherwise

w

a numeric vector taking the value 1 if the respondent is in the Wide condition, and 0 otherwise

y1

a numeric vector recording the respondent's lower probability estimate

y2

a numeric vector recording the respondent's upper probability estimate

References

Budescu, D.V., Broomell, S., and Por,H.-H. (2009). Improving the communication of uncertainty in the reports of the Intergovernmental panel on climate change, Psychological Science, 20, 299-308.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data("intervalbeta", package="smdata")
# }