ledgejump {tigerstats}

Crowd Behavior at Ledge-Jumping Incidents

Description

A dataset recreated from summary data describing the relationship between weather and crowd behavior during 21 recorded incidents in England, in which a (suicidal) person was contemplating jumping from a ledge or other high structure and a crowd gathered to watch. The variables are as follows:

• weather. Warm or cool, based on the time of year when the incident occurred.

• crowd.behavior. The crowd either baited the would-be jumper, or was polite.

Format

A data frame with 21 rows and 2 variables

Source

"The baiting crowd in episodes of threatened suicide", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 703-709. See also dataset 59 in A Handbook of Small Datasets by Hand et al. See also http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7288565.