The graph simply correlates the average overall political leaning of a county with vaccination rates. This logic would be true if:
Being a Trump voter and refusing vaccination are 100% biconditional. They're simply not. There are plenty of vaccinated Trump voters and there are also plenty of non-vaccinated Democrats and Libertarians. (i.e: Ivanka, Melania Trump being vaccinated, also Latinos and blacks being more vaccine-hesitant, yet more likely to vote blue)
As of yesterday 50% of Americans (now around 51%) have already received at least one shot already. This kind of throws a wrench in your reasoning, no?
Science 101 tells us not to draw drastic conclusions about causation from simple, weak correlations. Hope I'm not down-dooted for dissenting deductive reasoning.
It is also worth noting that of all Americans who have had one shot, roughly only half of them have gotten the second one. This is a number I will be watching.
The graph simply correlates the average overall political leaning of a county with vaccination rates. This logic would be true if:
Being a Trump voter and refusing vaccination are 100% biconditional. They're simply not. There are plenty of vaccinated Trump voters and there are also plenty of non-vaccinated Democrats and Libertarians. (i.e: Ivanka, Melania Trump being vaccinated, also Latinos and blacks being more vaccine-hesitant, yet more likely to vote blue)
As of yesterday 50% of Americans (now around 51%) have already received at least one shot already. This kind of throws a wrench in your reasoning, no?
Science 101 tells us not to draw drastic conclusions about causation from simple, weak correlations. Hope I'm not down-dooted for dissenting deductive reasoning.
I was honestly being a smart ass
Yep. I learned from reading Thomas Sowell: Correlation is not causation.
It is also worth noting that of all Americans who have had one shot, roughly only half of them have gotten the second one. This is a number I will be watching.