{"id":20707,"date":"2022-02-17T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20707"},"modified":"2022-02-17T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T19:49:51","slug":"fun-with-statistics-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2022\/02\/17\/fun-with-statistics-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Statistics, again"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p> In case any of you see that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gelliottmorris\/status\/1494354681237315586\">polls show<\/a> vaccine _mandates_ are unpopular but vaccine _requirements_ are popular, here are the numbers:\r\n<p><i>Do you believe K-12 schools should be allowed to mandate vaccines for their students?<\/i> 37% yes, 46% no\r\n<p><i>Do you believe parents should be required to have their children vaccinated against [\u2026] COVID-19?<\/i> 48% yes, 37% no\r\n<p>I figure that\u2019s an evenly split 37+37=74% who answered the same way, not to mention 15% who consistently didn\u2019t answer either way, for 89% consistency.\r\n<p>So if someone says that \u201cpeople\u201d have very different opinions about what is mandatory and what is required, remember that nine out of ten people do not, in fact, have a different opinion, and that it is comparatively few people who respond differently to the differently worded question.\r\n<p>(Yes, they aren\u2019t exactly asking the same people, and yes there were a bunch of clues in each case about what the response \u201cshould\u201d be, all of which as far as I\u2019m concerned add to my point that most people do <i>not<\/i> change their minds about vaccine mandates when they are called requirements.)\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger hocks about numbers again.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20709,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707\/revisions\/20709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}