Contagiousness of yawning
Description
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.