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I would tend to think the education level also plays a role, and considering wealthier individuals usually have a better access to education/are more educated (

I would tend to think the education level also plays a role, and considering wealthier individuals usually have a better access to education/are more educated (read correlation not causation here), said individuals might have a better grasp off what is happening. Edit: Remote working is also easier when you have an office job Edit 2: I hope more research like this will come out so we can prepare and protect the ones who are more at risk when the next pandemic comes. Uderstanding the risk factors and how a disease spreads is the first step of debugging it. Sadly it is the first pandemic where we have the necessary tools to track all the information and analyse it. We have been lucky the death rate was not much higher

nicbou 6y ago
That makes sense, given how much statistics they throw at you. Logarithmic scales, R numbers, per-100000 values, percentages etc. That's on top of all the numbers you must remember to relativise the daily news. I wonder how much of it I'd grasp if I hadn't used maths since high school.
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JacksonGariety 6y ago
You really think right-wingers are too stupid to grasp the concept of the virus?
- MartianSquirrel 6y ago
  I did not mentionned political affiliations. I don't understand why everyone seems to focus on politics recently. Yes, there have been troubling events, but the world did not stop revolving
  - exclusiv 6y ago
    Well the top comment mentioned far-right so that's probably why the parent dropped that. Separately, I don't think it was a productive comment.
    - MartianSquirrel 6y ago
      Fair enough, that part did not register as OP said it was "anecdotical" and in his experience
  - netizen-9748 6y ago
    GP comment mentions far-right wealthy people not socially distancing, the commenter you are replying to seems to have connected that with the parent's comment on education.
  - mushbino 6y ago
    We could put a heat map of political affiliation, education, and income to see if maybe a correlation. Not too difficult to find out.
  - JacksonGariety 6y ago
    The comment you replied to is about right-wing response to the virus. Still, barring the political stuff (supposing that's possible)—your comment implies that people who wear masks do so because they are educated. I'd suggest that it is far more likely that they do so because they are deferential to authority by default. EDIT: s/smart/educated
    - majormajor 6y ago
      > Still, barring the political stuff (supposing that's possible)—your comment implies that people who wear masks do so because they are educated. I'd suggest that it is far more likely that they do so because they are deferential to authority by default. Authorities in the US initially said don't wear masks as private citizens. There was a groundswell of people saying "it's not a panacea, but it's quite probably worth doing for everybody" to get them to change their position and admit the original one was based more on trying to avoid a shortage than on anything about efficacy. That pushback seemed to come from an educated populace.
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nicbou 6y ago

That makes sense, given how much statistics they throw at you. Logarithmic scales, R numbers, per-100000 values, percentages etc. That's on top of all the numbers you must remember to relativise the daily news. I wonder how much of it I'd grasp if I hadn't used maths since high school.

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JacksonGariety 6y ago

You really think right-wingers are too stupid to grasp the concept of the virus?

MartianSquirrel 6y ago
I did not mentionned political affiliations. I don't understand why everyone seems to focus on politics recently. Yes, there have been troubling events, but the world did not stop revolving
- exclusiv 6y ago
  Well the top comment mentioned far-right so that's probably why the parent dropped that. Separately, I don't think it was a productive comment.
  - MartianSquirrel 6y ago
    Fair enough, that part did not register as OP said it was "anecdotical" and in his experience
- netizen-9748 6y ago
  GP comment mentions far-right wealthy people not socially distancing, the commenter you are replying to seems to have connected that with the parent's comment on education.
- mushbino 6y ago
  We could put a heat map of political affiliation, education, and income to see if maybe a correlation. Not too difficult to find out.
- JacksonGariety 6y ago
  The comment you replied to is about right-wing response to the virus. Still, barring the political stuff (supposing that's possible)—your comment implies that people who wear masks do so because they are educated. I'd suggest that it is far more likely that they do so because they are deferential to authority by default. EDIT: s/smart/educated
  - majormajor 6y ago
    > Still, barring the political stuff (supposing that's possible)—your comment implies that people who wear masks do so because they are educated. I'd suggest that it is far more likely that they do so because they are deferential to authority by default. Authorities in the US initially said don't wear masks as private citizens. There was a groundswell of people saying "it's not a panacea, but it's quite probably worth doing for everybody" to get them to change their position and admit the original one was based more on trying to avoid a shortage than on anything about efficacy. That pushback seemed to come from an educated populace.

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