Table 1.

Proportion of respondents selecting each response to the three conspiracy theories

	Freeman et al. (2020a) response scale (N = 251)
	Do not agree	Agree a little	Agree moderately	Agree a lot	Agree completely	Sum agreement
Jews have created the virus to collapse the economy for financial gain	98.0%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0%	2.0%
Muslims are spreading the virus as an attack on Western values	97.2%	1.6%	0.4%	0.8%	0%	2.8%
Coronavirus is a bioweapon developed by China to destroy the West	68.1%	21.1%	8.8%	1.6%	0.4%	31.9%

Note: Responses coded as agreement are shaded. ‘Sum agreement’ represents the sum of these responses. For comparison, Freeman et al. (2020a) report 19.2% sum agreement for the Jewish conspiracy theory, 19.9% with the Muslim conspiracy theory, and 45.4% with the China conspiracy theory. For the nine-point response scale, ‘No agreement’ subsumes the first five responses (Disagree completely, Disagree a lot, Disagree moderately, Disagree a little, Neither agree nor disagree). For the Jewish, Muslim, and China conspiracy theories, the ‘Neither agree nor disagree’ option on the nine-point scale was selected by 1.6%, 2.4%, and 8.9% of participants, respectively. The remaining responses were disagree responses.