Vaccine-hesitancy is highest among people with PhDs.

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The meme is indeed real.

Generally, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy was higher among the young (ages 18-24), non-Asian people and less educated (high school diploma or less) adults, and those with Ph.D.s, with a history of a positive COVID-19 test, not worried about serious illness from COVID-19 and living in regions with greater support for Donald Trump in the 2020 election. By May Ph.D.’s were the most hesitant group.

https://www.upmc.com/media/news/072621-king-mejia-vaccine-hesitancy

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/study-finds-most-highly-educated-americans-are-also-most-vaccine-hesitant

It's unsurprising that Asians are the biggest vaccine-worshipers, given their slave mentality and extreme insectoid collectivism. What is really interesting is the fact that the percentage of "anti-vaxxers" is similar in the lowest and highest education levels, being almost non-existent among bachelors and masters. Those "in the middle" really seem to be the ones who will almost always passively accept whatever narrative is presented to them in the form of "scientific consensus", just as the meme has predicted. Those who have lived mostly disconnected from the educational system, on the other hand, will more easily see through the brainwashing due to plain instinct prevailing over theoretical notions. If you haven't chugged on establishment narratives for your entire life, you will tend to identify and call out evidently nonsensical bullshit very readily. It doesn't take a high IQ to do that. Your typical college graduate, on the other hand, will always rationalize even the most bizarre situations, using the "tools" and theories that he has been taught in college and through the media. However, as you move rightwards on the IQ bell curve, you will start to come across more independent thinkers and people who can see the faults in the consensus and how it is created and instrumentalized by people with selfish or nefarious goals.

Vaccine-hesitancy in the current situation should be the standard behavior of independently-thinking people, given how batshit insane the global response to Covid has been and how miserably "Science" has failed in its attempts to stop contagion, not to speak of the experimental nature of mRNA vaccines. A look at the data will confirm that what we have seen the past year and a half is the result of bad science being weaponized by a technocratic, authoritarian cabal that wishes to enslave us all. There is zero evidence for lockdowns being effective, and the way all of this has been conceived is simply fishy and has not been based on established science at all. It is very easy for someone who thinks independently to see through this. The problem is that as I said, the average person will almost always rationalize the blatant disregard for the scientific method and human life as well as proto-totalitarianism as being "necessary" and "not so bad" because "muh global emergency".

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[–]sylla94 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

what is really interesting is the fact that the percentage of "anti-vaxxers" is similar in the lowest and highest education levels

it's real... it'S REALLLLLL

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

https://i.postimg.cc/d0Hq4bLY/1628730486003.png

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol!

[–]FrenologistSaving the World 1 Cranial Exam at a Time 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Black PHDs have a 100% vaccine-hesitancy rate but, that's because there's only 1 and he won't take it.

[–]thefirststoneThat's my purse! I don't know you! 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

All this tells me is that the people most likely to be indoctrinated spend lots of money to achieve that end. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with IQ.

This is about money.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

However, as you move rightwards on the IQ bell curve, you will start to come across more independent thinkers and people who can see the faults in the consensus and how it is created and instrumentalized by people with selfish or nefarious goals.

This is where the Dissident Right comes from. What Turchin calls counter-elites, and Lilla calls counter-intellectuals.

[–]DragonerneJesus is white 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly this

[–]JBJones 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They base everything on feelings and fairness. Data doesn’t matter. Oregon basically waiving any requirement to go to high school so we can be fair. Live free or die fuckers.

[–]ShmuelHydesteinProfessor of Based Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nothing here really surprises me, though it's good to have empirical evidence so that these claims cannot be dismissed as baseless speculation.

Young people being more less pro-vax: That the group least likely to die is also least likely to see the vax as worthwhile is just commonsensical. What would surprise me is if the results were anything otherwise.

Asians being most pro-vax is also evidence of the correct "racist stereotype" that they are more conformistic than all other races. Only "anti-racists" would find this surprising, but it's their view that is the one at odds with reality. Race realists don't find this claim surprising. If we have any list of examples, it is in need of an update.

Less educated people being less pro-vax is probably the most surprising claim. I'd wager that it's just because they have less exposure to official narratives, i.e. people working low-paid menial jobs are going to spend less time exposed to the media and therefore are less likely to internalize pro-vax messaging.

Most educated people being less pro-vax also isn't really surprising, since they're taught to distrust practically everything (never write anything without citing peer-reviewed literature. Blog posts, media sites, social media, Wikipedia, etc. are not acceptable information sources. Anything not backed by empirical evidence and is logically unsound should automatically be regarded as false). 'Yep, I need a peer-reviewed source published in the top virology journal for why I should "get the jab", otherwise I'm making uninformed decisions based on insufficient evidence'. Of course, they're also still often the most indoctrinated people out there on some issues, which raises certain questions of why they can see past some things and not others.

Looks like the "tl;dr" is that the vax has the most appeal to midwit sheeple, particularly if they're Asian?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Vaccine hesitancy is irrational, you're stupid and consume too much schizophrenic media if you think it will kill you or sterilize you or something. You can't give a single argument except some stupid "opposing the narrative/agenda" bullshit.

And yeah, most of PhDs are quacks anyways.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

More disinformation:

1) "This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed." (The article is not fact-cheked and not ready for publication.)

2) This 'hesitancy group' is rather broad, and can still include those who will get the vaccine (though hardly anyone wants to take a vaccine, and is hesitant. We don't have to LOVE vaccines to agree to take them.)

3) Those who don't like this vaccine and have PhDs are a very small - perhaps around - 1% or as much as 5% or 10% - when one considers the total number of people who fall into these categories:

In May, independent hesitancy risk factors included younger age, non-Asian race, having a PhD or ≤high school education, living in a rural county, living in a county with higher 2020 Trump support, lack of worry about COVID-19, working outside the home, never intentionally avoiding contact with others, and no past-year flu vaccine.

[–]EuropeanAwakening14 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The idea that people with PhDs might disagree with you is damaging to your feelings of superiority over rural, White Americans.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So you want this to be about emotions? (It's not.)

The only reason anyone used this disinformation for anti-vaxxers' disinformation websites is because the poll supposedly included smart people, which is bullshit, on several levels. (Not that there weren't some smart people in the polls, but that their numbers are miniscule and insignificant in the results. Moreover, all people with PhDs aren't necessarily "smart".)

[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/health/2021/08/02/white-house-enlists-army-of-social-media-influencers-to-promote-covid-19-vaccines

Reminder that the federal government is paying money to tens of thousands of small ''influencers'' on social media to shill the vaccine. If you see some blue check, youtube hoe or twitch thot shilling the vax, you now know why.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And bible thumping rednecks.