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Fictitious data related to whether puppy therapy works when you adjust for a person’s love of puppies, taken from the {discovr} package (Field 2025)

Details

Following variables are included in the dataset:

  • `id“: Participant id

  • dose: Treatment group to which the participant was randomly assigned (No puppies (control), 15 minutes of puppy therapy, 30 minutes of puppy therapy)

  • happiness: Self-reported happiness from 0 (as unhappy as I can possibly imagine being) to 10 (as happy as I can possibly imagine being)

  • puppy_love: Self-reported love of puppies from 0 (I am a weird person who hates puppies, please be deeply suspicious of me) to 7 (puppies are the best thing ever, one day I might marry one)

For further details, see ?discovr::puppy_love.

References

Field, A. P. (2025). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.