Doesn't surprise me. The population of people who has held out this long from the vaccine is going to continue holding out. Most other people have already either gotten it without issue, or had already decided it's not worth losing their job over.
Sort of like saying, "95% of high school dropouts don't think formal education is important." Well, sure. Look who you're sampling.
I've seen that and was immediately suspicious of it when I looked at the data.
One reason: open survey.
I hate surveys. Especially when you're giving them to a group of people who are demographically unlikely to provide you accurate information, on purpose.
Let's say that right now, I were to re-run this survey. Here. Among you vaccine skeptics.
Would it be wrong for me to worry that perhaps the people here might falsely claim to have a PhD to legitimize their opinion on the vaccine? In order to make it look like people with high levels of education were supporting the position of this community?
Of course, to know whether this was an actual risk, we have to look at how the data was collected and... oh, it's a Facebook survey.
So they used a Facebook survey, asked people their thoughts on the vaccine, and asked people to self-report their education level. And shockingly, there were a HUGE number of PhDs answering these questions on this random Facebook survey.
The Masters degree people came in as expected. The regular college grads as expected. But a fuckton of PhDs, and a drastic change in opinion. As if a bunch of anti-vax people labeled themselves with the highest possible degree to manipulate the survey.
Which, let's be honest, is a perfectly viable worry. Hell, I've seen that kind of brigading called for on this very site.
Anyway, this paper hasn't been peer-reviewed or published yet, and I imagine other researchers will tear this paper apart on that basis when the time comes. But we'll see.
Doesn't surprise me. The population of people who has held out this long from the vaccine is going to continue holding out. Most other people have already either gotten it without issue, or had already decided it's not worth losing their job over.
Sort of like saying, "95% of high school dropouts don't think formal education is important." Well, sure. Look who you're sampling.
'Americans with PhDs are most reluctant to get vaccinated against COVID'
Electrical engineer here.
I don't want the clot shot because I have an IQ well into triple digits.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/americans-with-phds-are-most-reluctant-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid/ar-AANjRHh
I've seen that and was immediately suspicious of it when I looked at the data.
One reason: open survey.
I hate surveys. Especially when you're giving them to a group of people who are demographically unlikely to provide you accurate information, on purpose.
Let's say that right now, I were to re-run this survey. Here. Among you vaccine skeptics.
Would it be wrong for me to worry that perhaps the people here might falsely claim to have a PhD to legitimize their opinion on the vaccine? In order to make it look like people with high levels of education were supporting the position of this community?
Of course, to know whether this was an actual risk, we have to look at how the data was collected and... oh, it's a Facebook survey.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1.full.pdf
So they used a Facebook survey, asked people their thoughts on the vaccine, and asked people to self-report their education level. And shockingly, there were a HUGE number of PhDs answering these questions on this random Facebook survey.
The Masters degree people came in as expected. The regular college grads as expected. But a fuckton of PhDs, and a drastic change in opinion. As if a bunch of anti-vax people labeled themselves with the highest possible degree to manipulate the survey.
Which, let's be honest, is a perfectly viable worry. Hell, I've seen that kind of brigading called for on this very site.
Anyway, this paper hasn't been peer-reviewed or published yet, and I imagine other researchers will tear this paper apart on that basis when the time comes. But we'll see.
It's okay to be wrong about things, it's how we grow.
Agreed.
If you're proven wrong, you've only gotten smarter as a result. Win-win.