Table 3.
Demographic variables by percentage.
| Demographics | Study 1 (n = 1,249) | Study 2 (n = 1,244) | United States (n = 323,127,513) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | |||
| Males | 56.5 | 49.5 | 49.2 |
| Females | 43.5 | 50.5 | 50.8 |
| Ethnicity | |||
| Asian | 8.0 | 7.5 | 5.6 |
| Black/African-American | 6.3 | 6.9 | 13.3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.1 | 5.9 | 17.6 |
| White | 80.6 | 79.8 | 61.6 |
| Politics | |||
| Left | 43.2 | 40.2 | 48 |
| Right | 14.0 | 17.4 | 39 |
| Independent | 21.1 | 19.2 | 13 |
| Moderate | 2.2 | 3.0 | |
| Others | 2.9 | 4.1 | 6 |
| Blank | 16.7 | 16.1 | |
| Education | |||
| High school or less | 12.0 | 13.4 | 41.5 |
| Some college | 31.3 | 31.0 | 31.3 |
| 4 years of college | 35.0 | 32.0 | 17.4 |
| >4 years of college | 21.7 | 23.7 | 9.8 |
| Age [mean(SD)] | 33.23 (12.29) | 35.20 (11.75) | Median = 37.2 |
We omitted 10 participants total who did not wish to report gender. We also omitted three categories of ethnicities, which constituted less than 3% (American Indian/Alaskan Native; Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander; Other; and Do Not Wish to Say). US population statistics (except Politics) obtained using most recent available data on 1/6/2017 from www.census.gov and the American Community Survey. Statistics for Politics obtained from Pew Research Center (http://www.people-press.org/2015/04/07/2014-party-identification-detailed-tables/). We used “lean Democrat” and “lean Republican” to match our coding of participant responses as closely as possible.