Theory 20/The rival is the same mechanism at another scale/Public health
Network or Individual Traits?
The claim
Vaccine hesitancy clusters socially rather than distributing with individual traits.
01The rival explanation
People with similar traits live near each other, so spatial clustering needs no transmission.
02What would tell them apart
Transmission predicts clustering beyond trait similarity, and change over time that follows contact rather than composition.
03Prediction
Clustering should persist after trait adjustment.
04Refutation
If clustering vanishes after adjustment, the rival wins.