Table 1.

Descriptive statistics.

		Sample 1		Sample 2
		N	%	N	%
Age (in years)			Avg:		Avg:
	(Range S1 18–89; S2 18–79; S318–93)	1007	44.18	995	46.06
Sex
	Female	650	60.24	515	52.18
	Male	429	39.76	472	47.82
Education
	Up to and including high school diploma/GED	341	31.6	618	55.78
	Some post–high school, no bachelor's degree	519	48.2	381	34.38
	Bachelor's degree	82	7.6	90	8.12
	Graduate degree or post-bachelor's degree	402	29.2	19	1.71
Income
	Under $19,999	118	10.9	431	38.41
	$20,000 to $29,999	108	10.0	208	18.54
	$30,000 to $49,999	259	21.7	304	28.88
	$50,000 to $99,999	398	36.9	159	14.17
	$100,000 and above	197	18.2	10	0.89
Race
	Nonwhite	173	16.02	364	36.58
	White	907	83.98	631	63.42
Ideology
	Extremely liberal	131	13.00	112	11.58
	Liberal	201	19.94	145	14.99
	Somewhat liberal	107	10.62	102	10.55
	Moderate	183	18.15	323	33.40
	Somewhat conservative	137	13.59	94	9.72
	Conservative	166	16.47	118	12.20
	Extremely conservative	83	8.23	73	7.55
Party Identification
	Republican (and leaners)	387	39.33	310	35.59
	Independents	80	8.13	113	12.97
	Democrats (and leaners)	517	52.54	448	51.44
COVID-19 CT Belief
	T1 mean (std. dev)	1013	0.26 (0.20)	911	0.32 (0.21)
Conspiratorial Thinking
	T1 mean (std. dev)	1007	0.48 (0.28)	909	0.52 (0.25)
Anti-intellectualism
	T1 mean (std. dev)	542	0.28 (0.20)	487	0.31 (0.22)
Learned Helplessness
	T1 mean (std. dev)	1010	0.33 (0.22)	917	0.36 (0.22)
External Efficacy
	T1 mean (std. dev)	1009	0.36 (0.22)	910	0.40 (0.24)
Internal Efficacy
	T1 mean (std. dev)	1009	0.35 (0.21)	910	0.39 (0.22)
Political Interest
	T1 mean (std. dev)	1010	0.69 (0.22)	908	0.63 (0.24)
Democratic Satisfaction
	T1 mean (std. dev)	1004	0.52 (0.20)	915	0.52 (0.21)
Trust
	T1 mean (std. dev)	1009	0.43 (0.17)	909	0.42 (0.18)
Political Knowledge
	T1 mean (std. dev)	1005	0.81 (0.23)	916	0.70 (0.27)

Note: Sample 1: MTurk; Sample 2: Forthright.