Posted on 08/11/2021 7:24:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The percentage of each education group that is somewhat vaccine hesitant. Source: Carnegie Mellon University
There has been much debate over how to get the unvaccinated to get their jabs — shame them, bribe them persuade them, or treat them as victims of mis- and disinformation campaigns — but who, exactly, are these people?
Most of the coverage would have you believe that the surge in cases is primarily down to less educated, ‘brainwashed’ Trump supporters who don’t want to take the vaccine. This may be partially true: the areas in which the delta variant is surging coincide with the sections of red America in which vaccination rates are lowest.
But according to a new paper by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, this does not paint the full picture. The researchers analysed more than 5 million survey responses by a range of different demographic details, and classed those people who would “probably” or “definitely” not choose to get vaccinated as “vaccine hesitant.”
In some respects the findings are as predicted — for example the paper finds that there is a strong correlation between counties with higher Trump support in the 2020 presidential election and higher hesitancy in the period January 2021 — May 2021.
But more surprising is the breakdown in vaccine hesitancy by level of education. It finds that the association between hesitancy and education level follows a U-shaped curve with the highest hesitancy among those least and most educated. People with a master’s degree had the least hesitancy, and the highest hesitancy was among those holding a Ph.D.
What’s more, the paper found that in the first five months of 2021, the largest decrease in hesitancy was among the least educated — those with a high school education or less. Meanwhile, hesitancy held constant in the most educated group; by May, those with Ph.Ds were the most hesitant group.
So not only are the most educated people most sceptical of taking the Covid vaccine, they are also the least likely the change their minds about it…
My experience is useful intelligence peaks at the Master’s level.
People with a PhD know one tiny subject very well, but don’t understand anything about the rest of the world.
I’d like to know the jab rate for deplorables.
My experience is that PHDs know a lot of other “experts”, and have learned that the “experts” that appear in public are whores for big corporations and big government.
Graduate school teaches one to be skeptical about scientific claims until sufficient, repeatable evidence is available. One does not simply follow the “consensus” any more than one develops a product solely through committee meetings.
I’ll say this (just based on limited contact in life with PhD folks)...if you measured them on pure skeptical nature, they’d measure higher than most other levels of education, on any topic.
A PhD is taught to look at data with a skeptical eye, not just in their chosen field of study.
Your refutation is that PhD’ s have less practical intelligence. And your source is .... wait for it...
You.
Beautiful- beautiful propaganda. Nice job!
It doesn’t take a PHD to read that all previous attempts (peer reviewed studies) to develop a coronavirus vaccine resulted in….ADE!
You don’t get a PhD by agreeing with everything you see without facts and evidence to support it.
Try again.
I dislike the term “vaccine hesitancy”, as if the default position is “gimme some of that”. Besides the fact that these shots are NOT vaccines! How about “Hell no to Covid shots-ency”?
“A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.”
They hand out Master Degrees like candy over the last 30 years.
Sorry STRONGLY disagree.
The chart of categories informs that the view either from peak street knowledge or from peak book knowledge will be of red flags (the red sea of consensus) below.
What an odd observation given that almost everyone who has a doctorate (PhD) first obtained at least one master's degree. To go from the peak of useful intelligence to not understanding anything about the rest of the world is quite a slide.
Would love to see the rate among MDs and others in the healthcare professions.
And I’ll bet his VCR was flashing 12:00
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