Vaccine skepticism among Americans is widespread, The POLITICO Poll found, indicating that one of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s animating priorities is gaining traction.

Results from the March poll of 3,851 U.S. adults conducted by Public First show that a plurality of Americans question the safety of vaccines, support reducing the number administered and believe that people’s right to decide what they put in their bodies is more important than preventing the spread of disease.

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    This shit again?

    Take a Stats 101 course before complaining about sample sizes.

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      Stats 102 will tell you that any sampling collected in March is biased and unusable. May is the only time to poll if you want the real numbers.

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      when you’re talking to antivaxxers, you can’t expect knowledge, logic, reason, facts, evidence, expert opinion, medical science consensus, or anything else that supports the safety of vaccines to be a factor in anything they say

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        I like how you (and me, if we’re being honest) think he’s an antivaxxer, and then he turned around and accused me of being an antivaxxer.

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      also, yes this shit again - we all know you antivaxxers hate rigorous applications of mathematics and basic logic

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      statistical significance against sample size is only relevant in unbiased sampling and there is no mention of their methods. this is a literal joke of a conclusion

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        None of which was mentioned in your initial complaint.

        From the article

        The poll was conducted by Public First from Mar. 13 to 18, surveying 3,851 U.S. adults online. Results were weighted by age, race, gender, geography and educational attainment. The overall margin of sampling error is ±1.6 percentage points. Smaller subgroups have higher margins of error. Source: The POLITICO Poll with Public First

        You want to criticize their methodology, go for it. But just whining about sample size makes you look like a an idiot.