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Rind and Bordia (1996) restaurant tipping experiment

Source: R/data.R
rind_bordia_1996.Rd

Exercise dataset for Chapter 9, Exercise 9.6. Servers randomly drew a smiley face on the check or did not; the design crosses that with server sex.

Usage

rind_bordia_1996

Format

A data frame with 89 rows and 5 columns:

female

Server is female

happyface

Smiley face drawn on the check

tip

Tip as a percentage of the bill

xhappy

Interaction of female and happyface

tipround

Tip rounded to the nearest whole number

Source

Rind, B. and Bordia, P. (1996). Effect on Restaurant Tipping of Male and Female Servers Drawing a Happy, Smiling Face on the Backs of Customers' Checks. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26(3), 218-225. ISPS Data Archive study D081 doi:10.60600/YU/VUH8KD , file 42341 (Rind_Bordia_JASP_1996). Built by data-raw/exercise_datasets.R.