Summary information

Study title

Human performance on a deductive reasoning task in the description logic ALE

Creator

Fokkens, Tjeerd (Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg)
Engström, Fredrik (Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg)

Study number / PID

2023-292-1 (SND)

https://doi.org/10.5878/5739-da47 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

The data was collected through the (online-distributed, currently unavailable) survey to test the accuracy of the cognitive model SHARP (for more info about this model, see: https://hdl.handle.net/2077/74797 ). The code for SHARP is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13759504 SHARP was designed to simulate human performance on certain deduction tasks related to the description logic ALE. More specifically, SHARP models the task of checking whether a given ABox (in the logic ALE) is inconsistent. In the survey, participants were presented (among other things) ABoxes after which they were supposed to decide their inconsistency. The data consists of: - responses to questions about previous logic experience - responses to demographic questions - responses for each presented ABox (`Consistent', `Inconsistent' or `I don't know') - responses for questions where the participant was asked to rate the difficulty of the previous ABox on a five-point Likert scale - response times for all questions, in seconds - a number indicating the order in which the ABoxes were presented (this order was randomised and different for each participant) See list of variable codes and their explanation below, please note that the mathematical notation used there is only properly shown when using MathJax. The documentation file Data_Description-2.pdf has been rendered with the corresponding notation and may be used for reference. DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [results-survey539252-16.csv] Number of variables: 108 Number of cases/rows: 84 Variable List: G01Q37: 'Do you know what a contradiction is?' G01Q36: 'Do you have experience with description logic?'' G01Q39: 'Have you seen this notation before? \( \\{ a \{\,:\,\} (A \sqcap B) \\} \) (If the expression does not show properly, please consider using a different browser)' G02Q38: 'What is your gender?' G02Q39: 'What is your age?' G02Q40: 'What is your nationality?' G01Q00: '\( \\{ a \{\,:\,\} A,\ b \{\,:\,\} \neg A,\ a...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

01/06/2023 - 30/11/2023

Country

Sweden, Netherlands, Germany

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People affiliated to study programs in logic and/or computer science in Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands who have certain experience with logic and deductive reasoning.

Sampling procedure

University teachers of logic courses in Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands were contacted and asked to participate and share the survey link. Sampling was stopped after 71 usable (based on the criterion of 75% correct responses) responses were collected.
Non-probability: Respondent-assisted
Non-probability: Availability

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Online questionnaire using the LimeSurvey platform. Both responses and responses times were recorded.
Self-administered questionnaire: web based

Funding information

Funder

Karl Langenskiölds Memorial Foundation

Grant number

KL2023-0010

Access

Publisher

Swedish National Data Service

Publication year

2024

Terms of data access

Access to data through SND. Data are freely accessible.

Related publications

Not available