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> I would guess that awareness of the Tuskegee Experiment and black history more generally is greater among those with higher education than those with lower ed
by crackercrews 5y ago
> I would guess that awareness of the Tuskegee Experiment and black history more generally is greater among those with higher education than those with lower education. If this guess is right, then knowledge of historical racist medical abuses is actually strongly correlated with getting the vaccine.
This correlation appears meaningless in light of the previous paragraph.
> As with the population in general and every other racial group, black vaccination rates climb in lockstep with educational attainment.
Unless the education/vaccination curve has a different shape, then it would seem that the correlation is unrelated to awareness of the Tuskegee Experiment. The conclusion seems to acknowledge that the two are not causally linked. But then why include the correlation from the first quote above?
- MikeUt 5y agoTo show that awareness of Tuskegee is, if anything, negatively correlated with vaccination rate, and therefore unlikely to be the driver of lower vaccination rates among Blacks. Edit: Correction: As crackercrews pointed out, I wrote "negatively correlated", when I should have written "positively correlated".
- crackercrews 5y agoDoesn't it show a positive correlation?
- s1artibartfast 5y agoMaybe if you showed awareness of the incident you could then draw a correlation. I don't know how many people in the black community or otherwise are aware of it
- cinquemb 5y agoThis also conflates institutionalized schooling with knowledge of Tuskegee (as well as education == institutionalized schooling, but this is typical among many)