Refutation to Anti-vaccination Memes came up with this excellent illustration to explain why anti-vaxxers shouldn't claim a "win" just because more vaccinated people than unvaccinated people get sick during an outbreak.
This example has a bit more credence if paired with actual immunization rate/infection rate data. For instance, in a case when an outbreak has occurred, and most infected are immunized, but there were still some un-immunized individuals.
To further this case, yes, most people in America are immunized. However, here is an example of an outbreak that has been linked to un-vaccinated folks.
How to use it in class:
-Base rate fallacy (which DOES matter when making an argument with descriptive stats!)
-Relative v. absolute risk.
-Making sense of and contextualizing descriptive statistics.
Amen!!!!!!
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