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Oscar Torres-Reyna Activity 04 – Is love really blind? WARNING: Do not start the activity in Canvas until you have prepared the data first

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Oscar Torres-Reyna Activity 04 – Is love really blind? WARNING: Do not start the activity in Canvas until you have prepared the data first. Popular culture tells us that “love just happens”, but academic research suggests that “love is just around the corner”, literally. According to academic researchers, the development of romantic relationships is not as random as we thought, love just does not happen out of thin air, context matters, who we are matters, where we are matters. We will follow that research and explore whether love is really blind in three dimensions1 : • Homogamy – The tendency of developing romantic relationships with people that look like us, this is the “tendency of like to marry like”. We will explore some demographics like age, religion, race, education, and political preferences. • Routine activities – We will look at the percentage of people who met their romantic partners at work, school, church, online dating, trip (business or leisure), nightclub, social organization, or at a party. These are considered everyday activities which tend to narrow the pool of candidates for a romantic encounter. • Social network – We will analyze how people met each other through family, friends, coworkers, classmates, or neighbors. Along with routine activities this tends to constrain the number of candidates for a potential mate. The Excel file SU23-A04-Love.xlsx has data collected for 3,010 individuals with different backgrounds. Questions were asked to those who responded the survey (with a prefix “r_” for respondents), and they also answer questions about their partners (with a prefix “p_” for partner). Make sure to read the tab “Codebook” so you have a better idea of the variables and sources. Create the following variables: • Routine = work + school + church + online_dating + trip + nightclub + social organization + party [A value of ‘0’ in this variable would indicate that respondents met their partners outside their daily routine, supporting the idea that love is actually ‘blind’]. • Social_net = family + friends + coworkers + classmates + neighbors [A value of ‘0’ here would indicate that respondents met their partners beyond their social circle, therefore supporting the idea that love is ‘blind’]. • Love_at_first = o 1 if exposure = 0, and o 0 if exposure > 0 o Love_at_first would have two values “1” met and date the same year, and “0” dated at least a year after they met. For context, variable “exposure” represents the number of years it took for the couple to start a romantic relationship after they first met. For example, a ‘2’ would mean that they started formally dating two years after they met; if exposure is ‘0’ they met and date the same year, hence love at first sight. • Create the variable r_age as the midpoint range of r_agecat –(lower + upper)/2 for each category-.In the case of those in the ‘75+’ category, use 75 for r_age. This exercise will make use of pivot tables if using Excel, or the functions table(), prop.table(), and CrossTable() if using R. Once the data is ready, proceed Canvas to answer the questions for this activity 1 Source: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Is Love Really Blind? Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-02-14. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3886/romance