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Not the parent, but I bet these findings line up well with Trader Joe's demographics: http://www.immunizationinfo.org/science/demographics-unvaccinated-children

• NathanKP 13y ago
  Interesting. However that link says only three in one thousand children were completely unvaccinated. The percentage that were under vaccinated is larger but still not that terrible. So even if the demographics of Trader Joe shoppers and unvaccinated people had a 100% match that doesn't mean that someone shopping at Trader Joes is likely to be unvaccinated. The percentage of people who eschew all vaccinations is low enough that the percentage of the unvaccinated shopping at Trader Joes is also likely to be very low.
  • endianswap 13y ago
    Sure, and my point wasn't to necessarily defend the original parent but to see if there's data that would suggest whether there's some cognitive bias here or if the two groups are composed of generally well-overlapped demographics. I'm also not concerned as he is about this problem, just interested in the conversation.
  • drakaal 13y ago
    Hep A isn't a mandatory Vaccine in most places. So most people don't have it. The types that shop at Trader Joe's tend to be the types that reject Adult Vaccines because they think that like Hybrid Crops they are just something cooked up by big companies to make money.
    • mikeash 13y ago
      Are there, in fact, "types that shop at Trader Joe's" beyond people who live near them, people who like saving money on the stuff that TJ's sells cheaply, and people who like quality food?