Most vaccine-hesitant group is those with PhDs
A study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh researchers found that vaccine hesitancy is highest among those with a PhD.
The online survey of more than 5 million adults was conducted between January 6th and May 31st. People who said “probably not” or “definitely not” when asked if they would get the vaccine were considered vaccine hesitant.
“There was not a decrease in hesitancy among those with a professional degree or PhD,” the paper states.
A news release regarding the results explained further: “Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group (those with a Ph.D.); by May Ph.D.’s were the most hesitant group.”
The graph (below) provided in the survey charted the results. The line in yellow represents those with PhDs. It shows that their vaccine hesitancy rate rose slightly over the five-month survey period to end at the top of the chart.
“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,” Unherd reports. “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 “this does not paint the full picture,” Unherd noted:
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…
Read the paper here and the Unherd analysis here.
See more here: thecollegefix.com
Header image: Discover PHD’s
PSI editor’s note: If people with PhD’s, presumably among the mostly intelligent of folk, are the most vaccine hesitant, should that not be of concern to the rest of us?
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dnomsed
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‘PhD’ followed closely by ‘high school or less’.
Lots of smarts in both those cohorts. Different type of smarts though.
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Tom
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Schooling has nothing to do with it. The idea of questioning authority and thinking for oneself are at the forefront of the resistance. And it’s not always vaccine hesitancy, but rather the idea that injections were never considered as on option for health. The only thing I am very hesitant about is to even contemplate thinking about getting an injection…that debate has never come into my thinking.
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Richard Noakes
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You: Most vaccine-hesitant group “is” those with PhDs
Me: Most vaccine-hesitant group “are” those with PhDs
“Is” is singular – “are” is multiple
Richard
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denis dombas
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wow,what a comment about something that is basic for existence of any society where people are forced to take something against their will.The “grammar” is more important?
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TwilaTharp
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Gee, Richard, you really care about the important stuff… And you’re wrong. Duh. A group is, not a group are.
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WhoKoo
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“those with PhDs” does create an ambiguous plurality.
Some say that English is a living, evolving language. This claim is generally an excuse for ignorance or laziness.
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Moffin
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Or a result of mass production. To err is human.
Settle down is Whokoo.
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TwilaTharp
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I can attest to the veracity of this study as I have my Ph.D. in life. I was well aware from the get go that this entire event was a hoax brewing in the UK and that it would cross the Atlantic.
Instead of focussing on the maudlin, we really need to stop this continuing. We don’t need to have an election in Canada that is fixed either. Bring in Bev Harris, Black Box Voting 2.0 and have her onsite to monitor the Dominion machines (same as used in he US election). -I read that the Dominion machines are to be used in Canada and you don’t need many of them to skew the entire election.
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GestremdeGrofsmid
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Business partner of Chinese Communist Party owns American elections company
https://corruption.news/2021-08-16-ccp-business-partner-owns-american-elections-company.html
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Andy
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More comments about the bloody words I picked for the title than on the article itself. I was talking about one group, so used IS. Had I been talking about more than one group, I would have said ARE.
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WhoKoo
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Most Vaccine-Hesitant Group Is THAT With PhDs
The polarity oversight has just blown up the English laboratory and the resulting chain reaction is irreversible.. I’m gonna tell Moffin.
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very old white guy
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not being a holder of a PHD, I will affirm that I am rabidly against the experimental shots, and a great deal of accurate information on sites such as this has firmed my opinion rock solid.
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DeadHeartDiary
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I just took a look at every aspect of life, ever. None of it needs vaccines. Then I considered the effects of toxins in vaccines, industrial exploitative, profiteering motives. Even worse than that. And I recognized, of every vaccine ever, “Hey wait a minute, they should be destroyed”.
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