Are there really antivax people that would know the word "covariate?" That's gotta be a small Venn diagram overlap.

They might know the word. Understanding what it means in context is a different matter.

You see this all the time where people will pick up niche jargon and misapply it.

biophysboy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Antivaxers surpisingly know quite a lot of lingo. What they lack is an understanding of experimental methods.

I'm fine with vaccines, i just dont want my kids to particpate in the experiemnt for a disease that they have 0% chance of dying from.

	▲	biophysboy an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The case fatality ratio for measles infected children in high-income countries is also low. Nonetheless, we vaccinate children for this infectious disease because morbidity is also bad.
	▲	margalabargala 16 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Which disease is that? I'm not aware of any disease that's commonly vaccinated against that has a 0% death rate in children.

ceejayoz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sovcits similarly use lots of complicated legal terms.

They just don't use them correctly and/or appropriately.