For one of my questions I was asked to create a seperate dataset with only female names, the question is out of 10, and she never specified what step to use, i used proc sort like this 33 proc sort data=Names out=work.Female_names (drop=gender);
34 by Name Count;
35 where Gender='F';
36 run;
NOTE: There were 89749 observations read from the data set WORK.NAMES.
WHERE Gender='F';
NOTE: The data set WORK.FEMALE_NAMES has 89749 observations and 2 variables.
NOTE: PROCEDURE SORT used (Total process time):
real time 0.09 seconds
cpu time 0.00 seconds I got 0/10 for this question even though my friend who got 10/10 used a data step and got the same result i did (that being a seperate dataset). Her reasoning was that it is a major issue to not use data step for something like this even though it got the same result, I asked chatgpt if this is a major issue and it said that its not an issue if the code to use was never specified. Before I appeal, I would like to hear from an expert if this truly is a major issue that I used proc sort instead of data.
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