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. 2012 Dec 18;7(12):e51876. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051876

Table 2. Proportion of a nominal sample from each respondent category according to the 2010 Census data, along with weights applied to individual respondents in the MTurk and SurveyUSA samples.

Category nominal sample (%) MTurk weights SurveyUSA weights
Woman - Young - NonWhite 7.6 0.49140438 1.212827831
Woman - Young - White 18.1 0.435434718 1.191716069
Woman - Old - NonWhite 7.6 4.071636288 0.508954536
Woman - Old White 18.1 1.006338014 0.154733066
Men - Young - NonWhite 7.2 0.664633048 1.993899145
Men - Young - White 17.1 0.505142453 1.379636378
Men - Old - NonWhite 7.2 6.729409613 0.604890752
Men - Old - White 17.1 2.036606082 0.268422977

Note: SurveyUSA weights are based on data from Simons & Chabris (2011), re-normed to 2010 Census data.