About the Authors

Andrew W. Brown

awbrown@uab.edu

Affiliation Office of Energetics, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

David B. Allison

Affiliation Office of Energetics, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AWB DBA. Performed the experiments: AWB. Analyzed the data: AWB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AWB DBA. Wrote the paper: AWB DBA. Designed custom R code: AWB. Designed and executed HITs on MTurk: AWB.