Covid-19

[Xville]

The majority of the unvaxxed have some college. Only about 25-30% of the pop has a degree. So you’re are argument about the uneducated not getting the vax is missing data/facts.

About a third of the population has at least a bachelors degree…if you include an associates, looking at around 42-45%

[Strange Brew]

I was commenting on the notion that the "largest" group of unvaccinated people have PHD's.
That's hard to imagine if the group is only 18% of the unvaccinated.

Help me and yourself out and research the % of the pop with PHDs and then cross that with what percentage of the unvaxxed they comprise. I don’t know or care but the bs statements made here regarding the unvaxxed are getting tired.

[Xville]

Help me and yourself out and research the % of the pop with PHDs and then cross that with what percentage of the unvaxxed they comprise. I don’t know or care but the bs statements made here regarding the unvaxxed are getting tired.

A quick google search shows that 1.2% of the country have a phd…so just using round numbers here say 4 million people have a PhD. Of that 4 million, I can’t find anywhere that states what percentage of that are unvaxxed.

[GoMuskies]

They're not the majority of unvaxxed obviously. The point is that a greater % of PhDs are unvaxxed than any other education level.

And it definitely matters if we're going to try to figure out how to get more people vaxxed. If all we're planning to do is piss and moan about the unvaxxed, then I guess it doesn't matter.

[Xville]

They're not the majority of unvaxxed obviously. The point is that a greater % of PhDs are unvaxxed than any other education level.

And it definitely matters if we're going to try to figure out how to get more people vaxxed. If all we're planning to do is piss and moan about the unvaxxed, then I guess it doesn't matter.

Simply not true unless I’m completely missing something. how are you reaching that conclusion?

[GoMuskies]

Well, I know I saw it somewhere! :) Sorry, don't have hard numbers, but I think this from WebMD on vaccine hesitancy is where the notion came from.

"The eye-opener: By May, the group with PhDs were more hesitant than those with lower educational levels."

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid...ncy-90-million

[Strange Brew]

They're not the majority of unvaxxed obviously. The point is that a greater % of PhDs are unvaxxed than any other education level.

And it definitely matters if we're going to try to figure out how to get more people vaxxed. If all we're planning to do is piss and moan about the unvaxxed, then I guess it doesn't matter.

Somebody maths and reads good too…:)

[Xville]

Well, I know I saw it somewhere! :) Sorry, don't have hard numbers, but I think this from WebMD on vaccine hesitancy is where the notion came from.

"The eye-opener: By May, the group with PhDs were more hesitant than those with lower educational levels."

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid...ncy-90-million

I always have an issue with a random study of one million people surveyed and then extrapolating that to state an outcome. I know that is basically what statistics are, but that’s kind of my problem with statistics based on polling …you can make them say whatever you want them too. Not saying that is what is happening here, but not something I’m taking to the grave.

[Strange Brew]

I always have an issue with a random study of one million people surveyed and then extrapolating that to state an outcome. I know that is basically what statistics are, but that’s kind of my problem with statistics based on polling …you can make them say whatever you want them too. Not saying that is what is happening here, but not something I’m taking to the grave.

On what have you based your opinion? The news? Confirmation bias from anecdotal stories?

[Xville]

On what have you based your opinion? The news? Confirmation bias from anecdotal stories?

My opinion about what? If it is referring to a previous post of mine, that’s my fault as I read what Paul sent completely wrong. Anyways, It may be true that the most hesitancy is people with phds, I just don’t trust a polling study to come to that conclusion. Anyways, spent way too much time on this about something that I don’t think matters. Carry on :)