diff --git a/06-data-carpentry.Rmd b/06-data-carpentry.Rmd
index 27c7497..eed7806 100644
--- a/06-data-carpentry.Rmd
+++ b/06-data-carpentry.Rmd
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Splitting means taking a variable that is really two variables combined and crea
 agesex = c("m0-10", "f0-10") # create compound variable
 n = c(3, 5) # create a value for each observation
 agesex_df = tibble(agesex, n) # create a data frame
-separate(agesex_df, agesex, c("age", "sex"), sep = 1)
+separate(agesex_df, agesex, c("sex", "age"), sep = 1)
 ```
 
 ```{r to-separate, echo=FALSE,}
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ knitr::kable(agesex_df, caption = "Joined age and sex variables in one column")
 ```
 
 ```{r separated, echo=FALSE}
-knitr::kable(separate(agesex_df, agesex, c("age", "sex"), sep = 1),
+knitr::kable(separate(agesex_df, agesex, c("sex", "age"), sep = 1),
              caption = "Age and sex variables separated by the function `separate`.")
 ```