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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I haven't ever looked into this. But it got me curious so now I'm looking. I haven't seen one for vaccines in general yet, but I did find one study about generational differences in opinions on the covid vaccine in particular.

Interesting read, I'm still digesting the data. Seems like, compared to Gen z and millennials, Gen x was more in favor of the covid vax in this study.

Again, yes this is just about the covid vax, but there's probably a decent overlap in the groups

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8882364/

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Covid-only will skew things massively. Disinformation wars really went to town on that one.

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Yea I have no idea how much it skews, that's why I made it painfully clear. But it does still talk about the generational imprinting of the major events that the various generations experienced.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm just translating.

There was a skew to trump among gen x ers. But richer people tend to live longer so that's not an uncommon trend.

Imo, I would expect the antivaxxers to be more common in generations with school age kids because it is media-slop targeted at parents. I'd like to see the sources myself.