People who answered a recent UNC Wilmington online survey are plenty mad about the N.C. legislature’s recent changes to education, according to a recent report.

With the 2014 session looming,  we seem to be getting a poll a week,  and most of them show what the sponsors go in looking for.  So let’s be clear up front:  This was a self-selected group of more than 2,350 people who responded to links shared by PTAs and social media,  including,  apparently,  the Observer’s Facebook page.  Participants were skewed toward middle-class women who have kids in public schools and/or have worked in public education.

*SNIP*

“Self-selected”? That’s putting it mildly. It’s totally skewed and unscientific. 60% had public school experience, 80% female – hardly a realistic sample of the general public. Remember, this “survey” was a watered down version of the first one done by the same two professors.  Read a take down of the first “survey” by Clark Reimer. UNCW should be horribly embarrassed.
I respect Ann Doss Helms a great deal, but she’s doing a big disservice to her readers by not pointing out in more detail what is wrong with this “survey” instead of charging forward with the tainted findings.  I do give her credit for disclosing this push poll “survey” was promoted on the Observer’s Facebook page.  The entire thing is tainted, but let’s go ahead and call it ‘interesting’.

Can you imagine the outcry if this had been a Civitas or John Locke survey? There would be mass hysterics and the usual rhetoric from the Left in NC. However, since this “survey” fits the cripple, slam and eviscerate narrative, it’s  just ‘self-selection’.

UPDATE: Thanks to Carolina Plott Hound for linking!