{{:r:saq.csv|SAQ.csv}} - fictional statistics anxiety questionnaire from Andy Field's textbook resources saq <- read.csv("http://commres.net/wiki/_media/r/saq.csv", header = T) ^ Variable ^ Position ^ Label ^ | stat_cry | 1 | Statiscs makes me cry | | afraid_spss | 2 | My friends will think I'm stupid for not being able to cope with SPSS | | sd_excite | 3 | Standard deviations excite me | | nmare_pearson | 4 | I dream that Pearson is attacking me with correlation coefficients | | du_stat | 5 | I don't understand statistics | | lexp_comp | 6 | I have little experience of computers | | comp_hate | 7 | All computers hate me | | good_math | 8 | I have never been good at mathematics | | frs_better_stat | 9 | My friends are better at statistics than me | | com_for_games | 10 | Computers are useful only for playing games | | bad_math | 11 | I did badly at mathematics at school | | spss_no_help | 12 | People try to tell you that SPSS makes statistics easier to understand but it doesn't | | damaging_comp | 13 | I worry that I will cause irreparable damage because of my incompetenece with computers | | comp_alive | 14 | Computers have minds of their own and deliberately go wrong whenever I use them | | comp_getme | 15 | Computers are out to get me | | weep_ct | 16 | I weep openly at the mention of central tendency | | slip_coma | 17 | I slip into a coma whenever I see an equation | | spss_crash | 18 | SPSS always crashes when I try to use it | | eb_looks | 19 | Everybody looks at me when I use SPSS | | no_sleep_ev | 20 | I can't sleep for thoughts of eigen vectors | | nm_normdist | 21 | I wake up under my duvet thinking that I am trapped under a normal distribtion | | frs_better_spss | 22 | My friends are better at SPSS than I am | | stat_nerd | 23 | If I'm good at statistics my friends will think I'm a nerd |