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Originally Posted by Swoop
Jim does not claim that a small survey of 301 out of roughly 1,000,000 doctors in the US said they had been vaccinated at a 97% rate.
He as repeatedly posted that 97% of ALL doctors in the US are vaccinated.
If I surveyed 30 Villagers and asked them if they drove over 20 mph in their golf cart, and 29 responded that they didn’t. Would you then accept the notion that 97% of ALL Villagers do not drive over 20 mph?
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Originally Posted by John41
And suppose Moderna tested their vaccine on only 301 adults and posted a 96% efficacy. People are gullible to believe any info given them unless it’s disproved which is the exact opposite of the scientific method. Of course if the poll results don’t fit their narrative they reject them.
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I think we would need a statistician to determine if the sample size is valid.
However, this was a
survey---which means it was mailed to a large # of physicians of which I'm sure only a small percentage responded. Then, like all polls, you have to consider how the question was worded. Imagine the differences in response to the same question asked the 2 following ways:
1) Have you concurred with the overwhelming majority of your colleagues and protected your staff and patients by receiving a proven safe and effective vaccine or are you one of the ignorant quacks with a degree that refused vaccination?
2) Have you ignored the possibility of serious short and long term side effects of a new vaccine for a disease that is highly unlikely to kill you and risked getting vaccinated anyway?
The devil is in the details.