FADE IN
Nine students in the M.S. in Psychology Research program at Brooklyn College, New York City (NYC), USA are taking the course Reproducible Psychological Research, where they are learning how to code for the first time. All of them have their cameras off. They are all learning R for the first time, and as an introduction to R, are being taught using the mtcars dataset.
Nine NYC graduate students who
- don’t own a car,
- don’t drive a car,
- and have no interest in cars.
Even with …