rosling_responses
Sample Responses to Two Public Health Questions
Description
Public health has improved and evolved, but has the public's knowledge changed with it? This data set explores sample responses for two survey questions posed by Hans Rosling during lectures to a wide array of well-educated audiences.
Usage
rosling_responses
Format
A data frame with 278 rows and 3 variables:
- question
ID for the question being posed.
- response
Noting whether the response was
correctorincorrect.- prob_random_correct
The probability the person would have guessed the answer correctly if they were guessing completely randomly.
Source
The samples we describe are plausible based on the exact rates observed in larger samples. For more info on the actual rates observed, visit https://www.gapminder.org.
Another relevant reference is a book by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, and Ola Rosling called Factfulness.