Resolving the small?pockets problem helps clarify the role of education and political ideology in shaping vaccine scepticism

Understanding the factors associated with vaccine scepticism is challenging because of ‘small-pockets’ problem: The number highly vaccine-sceptical people low, and small subsamples such as these can be missed using traditional regression approaches. To overcome this problem, current study (N = 5,200) used latent profile analysis to uncover six profiles, including two micro-communities who have potential jeopardize vaccine-led herd immunity. most group (1.14%) was educated expressed strong liberal tendencies. This also sceptical about genetically modified crops nuclear energy, likely receive news science from Internet. second-most (3.4%) young, poorly educated, politically extreme (both left right). In resolving small-pockets analyses help reconcile competing theoretical perspectives role education political ideology in shaping anti-vaccination views.