HandwritingR Documentation

Guess Author's Sex from Handwriting?

Description

Survey data to see if subjects can guess author's sex from handwriting specimens

Format

A data frame with 204 observations on the following 8 variables.

Individual

Survey Respondent Number

Gender

Gender of Respondent (0 = male, 1 = female)

Survey1

Percent correct on Survey 1

Survey2

Percent correct on Survey 2

FemaleID

Percent correct in identifying female specimens on Survey 1

MaleID

Percent correct in identifying male specimens on Survey 1

Both

Percent correctly identified on Survey 1 AND Survey 2

DIFF

Survey1 - Survey2

Details

Bradley and colleagues at Clarke University gave two identical surveys to a sample of 203 students (each student did the survey twice). Each survey contains 25 writing specimens and students were asked to identify whether the author is male or female. Of the 25 specimens, 12 are written by a female, 13 by a male.

An example of the survey form can be found at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sO6vlsozsORbqaCTsA7Ta0qZL7_6_MCEPJ7tYeKYyvI/viewform

Source

Bradley, S., (2015), "Handwriting and Gender: A Multi-use Dataset", JSE (Datasets and Stories). March 2015.

http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v23n1/bradley.pdf