S2 for PLOS One: Survey Data on Researcher Visibility and Gender Gap

Survey data from two laboratory experiments investigating the impact of women researchers' media visibility. The dataset includes responses from 271 non-academic individuals and 129 graduate students, collected by author Béatrice Parguel. It was last updated on 2026-05-27.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between researcher visibility and self-efficacy beliefs based on experimental manipulation.
• Compare perceptions of expertise between non-academic and graduate student populations based on survey responses.
• Investigate gender differences in the perceived attractiveness of academic careers based on experimental conditions.

Strengths

• Data originates from two controlled laboratory experiments with defined sample sizes (N=271 and N=129).
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for reuse and analysis.
• The study design manipulates a specific variable (relative representation in a newsletter) to test causal effects.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small (7.7 KB), indicating limited scope and likely a small number of variables.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data collected via two laboratory experiments.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 17:24:58; freshness should be verified.