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Americans With PhDs Are The Most Reluctant To Get Vaccinated Against COVID, Study Finds
The Daily Mail ^ | 08/15/21 | Shannon Thaller

Posted on 08/15/2021 6:32:37 AM PDT by Enlightened1

 

 

People with a PhD are the most hesitant when it comes to getting the Covid-19 vaccine, according to a paper by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Researchers surveyed just over five million US adults in an online survey, with 10,000 reporting that they were educated to PhD level.

The report showed a surprising U-shaped correlation between willingness to get a Covid vaccine and education level - with the highest hesitancy among those least and most educated. 

Of those surveyed, 20.8 per cent with a high school education were reluctant to get the shot, and 23.9 per cent with a PhD were against it. 

But the least skeptical of the shot had a Master's degree - with only 8.3 per cent of that group being vaccine hesitant. 

The researchers did not offer an explanation as to why so many people with PhDs were vaccine hesitant, and the paper noted that 'further investigation into hesitancy among those with a PhD is warranted'. 

The report said: 'To our knowledge, no other study has evaluated education with this level of granularity, which was possible due to our unusually large sample (of over 10,000 participants with PhDs).'


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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: covdi; phds; reluctant; vaccination
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To: Enlightened1

George Carlin on germs and immunity. He makes far more sense than Fauci, CDC, NIH and Biden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo

Language warning for the weak.


21 posted on 08/15/2021 8:27:16 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Boogieman

Two vets I know absolutely refuse these “vaccines.” One specializes in immunology in dogs.


22 posted on 08/15/2021 9:20:15 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Enlightened1
The chart shows masters degree holders most willing to get the injection. On the surface, it doesn't make sense as holders of a master's degree are also considered highly educated by our society.

Many of the masters are in business as opposed to PhDs which may represent more technical fields (excluding jill biden). Or...it points out that a master's degree is more ornamental and less substantial than the weight our society assigns it. You can enroll in a master's program by mail or online where you never spend a day on campus.

23 posted on 08/15/2021 9:54:24 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Pollard

Yes.

The risks of COVID are minor and not worth the unknowns of a rushed biological process.

Show me this disease is risky like its cousins SARS1 and MERS, and I’ll risk taking the unknown!


24 posted on 08/15/2021 10:20:23 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. )
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