Visualizations
What's the rudest airplane behavior?
This visualization plots the extent to which people consider airplane behaviors rude. Most people considered it rude to bring an unruly child and to wake up a neighbor to walk around, but other behaviors were considered not rude by the majority of the respondents.
Do airplane judgments differ across US regions?
For the second visualization, I wanted to see if there were any meaningful differences in rudeness judgments across different geographical regions of the US. Although there was typically regional variability within a particular judgment, no regions emerged as giving consistently harsh or lenient judgments across all behaviors.
Do tall people think reclining your seat is rude?
This visualization explores if people find an action more or less rude when it directly affects them. For example, very tall people may be made extremely uncomfortable when someone reclines their seat. There looks to be a small (and likely insignificant) effect, where respondents who said that the behavior was very rude were slightly taller than those who said it was somewhat rude or not rude at all. Some of the extreme categories have small sample sizes so be cautious drawing any conclusions.
Are men more judgmental than women?
This visualization explores whether or not there are gender differences in airplane judgments. There appears to be a small difference in childcare judgments, such that women consider it less rude to bring a baby or unruly child on a plane than men do. Gender differences of judgments seemingly differed across generations.