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Table 2 Participant sample (N = 300), validation study, compared to US Census Data

From: The genetic technologies questionnaire: lay judgments about genetic technologies align with ethical theory, are coherent, and predict behaviour

 

Numbers

Percentage

US census 2018

Ethnicity

White

192

.64

.78

Black

40

.13

.13

Asian

25

.08

.06

Mixed

15

.05

0.3 for other and mixed ethnicities

Other

10

.03

N/A

18

.06

Sex

Male

137

.46

.48

Female

145

.48

.52

N/A

18

.06

 

Age

18–27

37

.12

.17

28–37

65

.22

.18

38–47

44

.15

.16

48–58

41

.14

.17

58 + 

94

.31

.32

N/A

19

.06

 
  1. Census data taken from https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/data.html, accessed in July 2021