Naive clonal fish paired with experienced partners performed worse on an operant foraging task than those paired with other naive individuals. This dataset contains the results of a study on the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) investigating individual learning differences and social influence. The data and analysis code were authored by Fritz Francisco and last updated in May 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling the impact of demonstrator skill on observer performance based on the described social learning experiment.
- Analyzing stable individual differences in learning performance among clonal fish.
- Investigating the transferability of learned information in a social context as suggested by the study's conclusions.
Strengths
- Data is accompanied by analysis code in RMD, MD, and PY formats, supporting reproducibility.
- Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting reuse with attribution.
Limitations
- Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
- The dataset is small at 422.8 KB, indicating a limited experimental scope.
Provenance
- Source
- Fritz Francisco via figshare
- Collection Method
- Experimental data from an operant foraging task with clonal Amazon mollies.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-20 17:58:11