The outcome was so very obviously decided first.
“Hey, who’s cleverer? Anti-vaxers or people who got the jab early doors?”
“I really have no idea. What a fascinating study that would make. Let’s find a suitable data set. It could go either way.”
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 15:28,
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While the research itself may have had some value in terms of how to increase the vaccine take-up, it does seem to to have been constructed in a way to allow smug cunts to backslap each other about how smart they are.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 16:13,
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I think a study of relative wealth and its impact on vaccine take up might be interesting.
Would that prove rich people are cleverer than poor people? Are people richer because they are more educated or are they more educated because they are rich?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 12 Sep 2023, 20:31,
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Ah, I see what you’re driving at, thought you meant they’d rigged the results
Yeah, you’re probably right, though a lot of science is setting out to prove something you thought is likely to be true
But given it’s not a particularly useful finding there could well be an element of shitting on antivaxxers motivating it, as Garold said.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 13 Sep 2023, 12:13,
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