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Attractiveness Rating (1957 Yearbook)

1957 Yearbook Photos Attractiveness Coding
     
OVERVIEW

The attractiveness coding was conducted during two separate operations during
the summer of 2004 & the summer of 2008.  Each yearbook photo was rated by six
men and six women using a photo-labeled 11-point rating scale, with end points
labeled as "not at all attractive" (=1) and "extremely attractive" (=11). 

Coders were recruited from roughly the same cohort as the original WLS graduate
participants.  These include judges whose ages ranged from 63 to 91 years in
age (average of 78.5).

This is the SECOND release of these data.  Due to some minor errors in
processing, the removal of cases with less than 11 ratings, and the addition of
5500+ new cases, all variables from the previous release (variables starting
with YRBK) have been archived.

NOTE:  Norming effectively removes coder fixed effects. Typical standardizing
subtracts the mean AND divides by the standard deviation. These normed scores
ONLY subtract the mean.

NOTE:  There are 174 cases with only eleven coder ratings instead of the
intended twelve.  These cases are treated the same as those with full rating
sets. 

BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTION

attrnd                  Round of coding.
numreports              Number of available ratings.

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Normed attractiveness ratings from ALL coders 

meanrat                 Normed average coder rating.
meanrat_trunc           Normed avg coder rating (highest and lowest dropped).
stdevrat                Normed standard deviation of ratings.
maxscore                Highest rating normed.
minscore                Lowest rating normed.

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Normed attractiveness ratings from FEMALE coders ONLY 

meanrat_fcoder          Normed average coder rating (female coders only).
stdevrat_fcoder         Normed std deviation of ratings (female coders only).
max_fcoder              Highest rating normed (female coders only).
min_fcoder              Lowest rating normed (female coders only).

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Normed attractiveness ratings from MALE coders ONLY 

meanrat_mcoder          Normed average coder rating (male coders only).
stdevrat_mcoder         Normed std deviation of ratings (male coders only).
max_mcoder              Highest rating normed (male coders only).
min_mcoder              Lowest rating normed (male coders only).

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normscore1-normscore12       Individual Normed Coder Ratings

rawscore1-rawscore12         Individual Raw Coder Ratings

coder1-coder12               Coder ID number

codersex1-codersex12         Coder Sex


For details about the 2004 round of coding, see Appendix M, COR821.

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