Couldn’t Help But Notice (110507)
Context: German unemployment falls to a 13-year low of ….. 8.7%.
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Following on the heels of the fraudulent SCHIP polls a few weeks ago from NPR and CBS, this doesn’t surprise (HT Michelle Malkin), but requires emphasis. It has to do with this Associated Press poll:
People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.
Sixty-seven percent support giving contraceptives to students, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. About as many — 62 percent — said they believe providing birth control reduces the number of teenage pregnancies.
Just a few “minor” problems:
- The poll oversampled Democrats by double-digits.
- 31% of those in the NPR Bull-SCHIP poll knew nothing about the issue; they were polled anyway. They were at the mercy of poorly designed poll questions, and the presence of know-nothings was not disclosed in press coverage. Similarly, 63% of those in the AP-Ispsos birth control poll were not parents of a school-aged child. You can make a better argument for including the 63% in the birth control poll than you can for the SCHIP ignoramuses; but again, the press didn’t mention this breakdown.
- As with the NPR Bull-SCHIP poll in regards to the knowledgeable vs. know-nothings, the birth-control poll didn’t tell us how the results differed between parents and non-parents — even in the detail. In both cases, the numbers could have been, and should have been, compiled and disclosed.
- AP (of course) embellished its coverage by interviewing a mother of a 3 year-old who is okey-dokey with contraceptives on demand, as if there are millions upon millions of moms just like her. I’ll betcha that a large majority of parents with school-aged children is dead set against that — especially down to age 11, which is what a Maine middle school is allowing.
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FIRE 1, Brainwashers at the University of Delaware 0. Hot Air has an interview, and audio, with one of the Delaware profs who exposed the Thought Police indoctrination tactics used at the school’s residence halls.
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Don Luskin thinks that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is being forced to deal with a bunch of children throwing temper tantrums posing as stock-market traders and analysts. He has a point. I should also add that the children are being egged on by a public conditioned by Old Media to believe that Armageddon awaits if interest rates don’t keep going down.
This interest rate given-in scenario going long-term does not bode well for keeping inflation in check.
