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An experiment conducted by the MythBusters, a science entertainment TV program on the Discovery Channel, tested if a person can be subconsciously influenced into yawning if another person near them yawns. 50 people were randomly assigned to two groups: 34 to a group where a person near them yawned (treatment) and 16 to a group where there wasn't a person yawning near them (control).

Usage

yawn

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 2 variables.

result

a factor with levels not yawn yawn

group

a factor with levels ctrl trmt

Source

MythBusters, Season 3, Episode 28.

Examples


yawn
#> # A tibble: 50 × 2
#>    result group
#>    <fct>  <fct>
#>  1 yawn   trmt 
#>  2 yawn   trmt 
#>  3 yawn   trmt 
#>  4 yawn   trmt 
#>  5 yawn   trmt 
#>  6 yawn   trmt 
#>  7 yawn   trmt 
#>  8 yawn   trmt 
#>  9 yawn   trmt 
#> 10 yawn   trmt 
#> # ℹ 40 more rows