Extended Data Table 5 Comparison of study participants, active Facebook users, and U.S. population

From: Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing

  1. Demographics and political attitudes of study participants without survey weights applied (first column), study participants with survey weights created to reflect the population of adult monthly active Facebook users who were eligible for recruitment (second column), respondents who report using Facebook in an AmeriSpeak probability sample with survey weights applied (third column), and all respondents in the AmeriSpeak probability sample with survey weights applied (fourth column). See SI Section 4.5 for details on the sample.