Listener Ratings of Speaker Employability Based on Accent and Processing Fluency

192 listeners provided employability ratings for gay- and straight-sounding first and second language English speakers. The data, published by Cesar Teló on figshare in May 2026, supports a post hoc analysis of how essentialist beliefs moderate the relationship between processing fluency and employability judgments. The dataset is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the moderating effect of essentialist beliefs about accents on employability ratings based on the described experimental design.
• Investigating the relationship between subjective processing fluency and competence judgments for second language speakers.
• Examining differences in listener evaluations between gay- and straight-sounding speakers as mentioned in the study description.
• Modeling how demographic or belief-based listener variables influence employment-relevant judgments of accented speech.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a controlled study with 192 listener participants.
• The analysis examines a specific, understudied moderator (essentialist beliefs) in the fluency-employability relationship.
• Data is openly available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset is small (225.5 KB), indicating limited scope and sample size.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some modeling tasks.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Cesar Teló.

Collection Method

Likely collected via a controlled listening experiment where participants rated speaker employability.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 05:29:11; freshness should be verified.