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Doctorates are the most likely to be unvaxxed though: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-with-phds-are-most-reluctant-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid/a

Doctorates are the most likely to be unvaxxed though: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-with-phds-are-most-reluctant-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid/ar-AANjRHh https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-with-phds-are-mo...

tptacek 5y ago
Doctors (as in, medical doctors) have what looks like the highest vaccination rates in the country; nurses fall right in the sweet spot of the U-shaped distribution that article posits.
stirlo 5y ago
Doctorates =/= Medical Professionals
- iammisc 5y ago
  The claim is that the least educated are most likely to be unvaxxed. That is false.
TheCoelacanth 5y ago
> The study employs a novel sampling method with a soft ask and low response rate, the effect of which has not yet been fully studied > To our knowledge, no other study has evaluated education with this level of granularity, which was possible due to our unusually large sample size (>10,000 participants with PhDs). Further investigation in to hesitancy among those with a PhD is warranted. Given the "novel sampling method" and lack of other studies with similar results, you have to take those results with the grain of salt. It's an interesting finding worth studying further, but you can't really know if they were able to get a representative sample of PhDs, so it's premature to make a definitive claim that they are less likely to vaccinated.
dadrian 5y ago
That's not an accurate study since the demographics were self-reported, and there was evidence that the education demographics were not in line with the expected distribution of the other demographics. Anti-vaxer's were likely lying to the survey (conducted on Facebook), and selecting the highest education level. https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/fact-check-setting-the-record-straight-on-claims-about-vaccine-hesitancy-among-ph-d-s/ https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/fact-check-setting-...

tptacek 5y ago

Doctors (as in, medical doctors) have what looks like the highest vaccination rates in the country; nurses fall right in the sweet spot of the U-shaped distribution that article posits.

stirlo 5y ago

Doctorates =/= Medical Professionals

iammisc 5y ago
The claim is that the least educated are most likely to be unvaxxed. That is false.

TheCoelacanth 5y ago

> The study employs a novel sampling method with a soft ask and low response rate, the effect of which has not yet been fully studied > To our knowledge, no other study has evaluated education with this level of granularity, which was possible due to our unusually large sample size (>10,000 participants with PhDs). Further investigation in to hesitancy among those with a PhD is warranted. Given the "novel sampling method" and lack of other studies with similar results, you have to take those results with the grain of salt. It's an interesting finding worth studying further, but you can't really know if they were able to get a representative sample of PhDs, so it's premature to make a definitive claim that they are less likely to vaccinated.

dadrian 5y ago

That's not an accurate study since the demographics were self-reported, and there was evidence that the education demographics were not in line with the expected distribution of the other demographics. Anti-vaxer's were likely lying to the survey (conducted on Facebook), and selecting the highest education level. https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/fact-check-setting-the-record-straight-on-claims-about-vaccine-hesitancy-among-ph-d-s/ https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/fact-check-setting-...