Making a Biden reference in the headline for those of you who don't know, so unknot those knickers. But in all seriousness, the Commies have made the calculation that people who refuse the vaccine are mouth-breathing Trump supporters, and therefore they can just mandate willy-nilly without pushback from the left. Some evidence, however, shows that PhDs are among the most vaccine hesitant (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1.full.pdf). Yes, they tend to be liberal, but these people are also well read and have strong opinions about Big Brother-type of governments. If they're as smart as their credentials show, then they should know that a vaccine mandate is just the beginning of a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. Unfortunately, many of them are under pressure to play along with their liberal academic colleagues or government institutions. Now that they will be forced to take the vaccine, they will feel like cornered lab mice. They might just decide that hey, maybe the Omega folk are up to something. So, once they show up, you better be on your best behavior. Comb your hair, wash your face, put on a new shirt, and uncross those eyes.
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The full statement starts at line 142, as follows:
"The association between hesitancy and education level followed a U-shaped curve with the lowest hesitancy among those with a master’s degree (RR=0.75 [95% CI 0.72-0.78] and the highest hesitancy among those with a PhD (RR=2.16 [95%CI 2.05-2.28]) or ≤high school education(RR=1.88 [95%CI 1.83-1.93])"
So you've got PhDs AND those with lless than a high school education in the same boat.
There's more to it than just being "as smart as their credentials show". Tell the whole story. Don't cherry-pick.
≤ means less than or equal and since the equal group dominates the less this doesn’t tell us what people with less than high school think. Also, educational attainment under communist doctrine is less correlated to intelligence than you might think. I’d posit the bell curve is just flatter there, and propaganda targets those hovering around average or below.
Nope. ≤ in this case means people with a high school education or less.
Where does communism come in? The title of the study is "Title:Time trends and factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy from January-May 2021 among US adults"
You seem to have missed my point and contradicted a statement pulled out of thin air. ≤ means less than or equal. ≤High school means an education of high school or less. Nothing I said was incorrect and we are in agreement about definitions.
I am saying that two distinct groups - people without high school, and people with only high school - are being conflated, and that since this cohort will be disproportionately composed of - dominated by - people with high school, polling that group won’t tell you what “dumb uneducated people” think, if that’s your counter argument and reason for calling out OP for cherry picking data.
I regret using the phrase cherry picking. I felt it was worthwhile to make the point that the '≤ high school' vs 'PhD' level of education didn't make a great deal of difference when you looked at people who were hesitating about the vaccine. According to graph B those two cohorts scored very close to each other, so there must be other reasons supporting their hesitancy.