Message-ID: <CABdHhvH0fYg1hQgv2ZjmKWZmopBQPprMULqgzk2XrSRiHXfjRQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2012-04-03T22:55:24Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: R datasets ownership(copyright) and license
In-Reply-To: <20120403224650.GN22869@onerussian.com>
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <yarikoptic at gmail.com> wrote:
> ;-) ?Let's check where factual ends and fictional/personal/etc starts
> and how easy to tell.
>
> Are survey data asking for answers to specifically crafted original
> questions (i.e. not just age/race/etc) factual? e.g.
>
> \title{The Chatterjee--Price Attitude Data}
> \description{
> ?From a survey of the clerical employees of a large financial
> ?organization, the data are aggregated from the questionnaires of the
> ?approximately 35 employees for each of 30 (randomly selected)
> ?departments. ?The numbers give the percent proportion of favourable
> ?responses to seven questions in each department.}
> \usage{attitude}
I don't see how their could be any confusion here - it is a fact
whether or not someone made a favourable response to a question. I
agree that there might be murky areas, but I don't think this is one.
Hadley
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Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/