COVID-19: Vaccination status polarizes population
People who strongly identify with their COVID vaccine status discriminate more strongly against the respective other group. This is shown by a study conducted by the team led by Luca Henkel, member of the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute at the University...
Yeah you've got a good point here and it shows how bias can find its way in. You're right, not finding measurable interpersonal bias wouldn't prove the null, it would simply fail to prove the alternative in that experiment, they should know better and phrase it that way. That they didn't is revealing
I agree with your concerns there too, the authors are far from perfect in that regard, but still maintain that this is rather useful and interesting data. They had to begrudgingly admit we are right on this. The fact that even through their bias and awful recommendations this shows we are right is itself interesting.