The Psychology of Numbers: Survey of Political Science Students in the Western Balkans

Ridvan Peshkopia's dataset contains survey responses from 1,754 political science students across 24 universities in the Western Balkans. It was used to test hypotheses about how agreeableness, interpersonal trust, and moral pessimism relate to preferences for numbers-oriented curricula. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-01.

Use Cases

• Analyze relationships between personality traits and academic preferences based on survey variables.
• Investigate regional educational attitudes based on data from Western Balkan universities.
• Replicate OLS regression analyses on a multiple-imputed dataset with clustered standard errors.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 1,754 survey responses, providing a substantial sample size.
• Data collection spans 24 universities, suggesting a multi-institutional scope.
• Analysis employed OLS regressions on a multiple-imputed dataset with clustered standard errors.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Western Balkan region.

Provenance

Source

Ridvan Peshkopia

Collection Method

Survey data collected from political science students.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 19:39:33; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Western Balkans