re-analysis of the Commission on Community Interrelations experiments

Answering an Antisemitic Remark, 1945 to 1949

A project of the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto. Ron Levi and Sol Goldberg.

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6 publications · 1,130 checks on the transcription · 47 data tables · 3 attitude experiments, 1946 · 7 preference rounds, 1945–1946 · 1 replication, 1949

The dataset

Every file is a transcription of numbers the authors printed: cell means, counts, analysis-of-variance lines, test statistics, sample descriptions, and numbers that appear only in the running text. Every row carries its source table and page. The codebooks describe each column, the design behind it, and every place where the printed numbers disagree with each other.

Download everything as one file: citron_reanalysis_data.zip.

Attitude change, 1946

Citron, Chein & Harding (1950) and Citron (1952), Chapter Three. Codebook: CODEBOOK.md

File	Rows
`anova.csv`	105
`answers.csv`	5
`cells.csv`	58
`citron_standardized.csv`	28
`design.csv`	12
`distributions.csv`	13
`items.csv`	24
`margins.csv`	87
`outcomes.csv`	7
`sample.csv`	42
`sample_exp3_detail.csv`	72
`sessions.csv`	32
`settings.csv`	6
`summary_claims.csv`	17
`tests.csv`	24

Audience preference, 1946

Citron (1952), Chapter Two. Codebook: CODEBOOK_preference.md

File	Rows
`pref_design.csv`	60
`pref_sample.csv`	112
`pref_t02_preference.csv`	24
`pref_tables.csv`	273
`pref_text_numbers.csv`	93

Preference series in seven rounds, 1945-1946

Selltiz, Citron, Harding, Rosahn & Wormser (1950). Codebook: CODEBOOK_selltiz.md

File	Rows
`sel1950_choices.csv`	102
`sel1950_design.csv`	36
`sel1950_tables.csv`	80
`sel1950_text_numbers.csv`	119

Anti-Black remark, 1949

Harding, Citron & King (1953). Codebook: CODEBOOK_hck1953.md

File	Rows
`hck1953_anova.csv`	25
`hck1953_answers.csv`	5
`hck1953_cells.csv`	36
`hck1953_design.csv`	33
`hck1953_groups.csv`	20
`hck1953_margins.csv`	15
`hck1953_outcomes.csv`	6
`hck1953_settings.csv`	3
`hck1953_tests.csv`	11
`hck1953_text_numbers.csv`	44

A college class's judgment, 1950

Marcuse (1951). Codebook: CODEBOOK_marcuse1951.md

File	Rows
`marcuse1951.csv`	14

Training volunteers to answer

Citron (1952), Chapters Four and Five; Citron & Harding (1950). Codebook: CODEBOOK_training.md

File	Rows
`train_cht1950_t4_adjusted.csv`	12
`train_design.csv`	44
`train_hartford_organizations.csv`	11
`train_t33_background.csv`	48
`train_t34_incident_ratings.csv`	33
`train_t35_reality_tests.csv`	12
`train_t36_attendance.csv`	35
`train_t37_confidence.csv`	12
`train_t38_trainer_security.csv`	21
`train_t39_morale.csv`	42
`train_t40_ranks.csv`	30
`train_text_numbers.csv`	101

Eight files that reproduce the plays, the questionnaires and the training-course outline word for word are held back from this site because the texts remain under copyright. They are available to researchers on request.

Reading the data

# R
cells <- read.csv("https://citron-reanalysis.pages.dev/data/cells.csv")
subset(cells, outcome == "citizenship_answer1")

# Python
import pandas as pd
choices = pd.read_csv("https://citron-reanalysis.pages.dev/data/sel1950_choices.csv")
choices[choices["round"] == "VII"]

The file cells.csv holds the attitude-change means by experiment, answer and setting. In mean_change, a negative value is a change toward the pro-Jewish end, as in the original tables.