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May 10, 2005
Gender Gap
The City of Riverside General Plan includes the following policy:
Encourage ongoing analysis to demonstrate the direct correlation between the arts and improved test scores, attendance, and behavior in K-12 education.With this policy, the City announces interest in supporting studies that agree with the Council's preconception that the arts are associated with better educational development of children. Science isn't supposed to work like that.
I smell a similar trick with this Washington Post article.
President Bush closed the gender gap in American presidential politics with his vicotory last November. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the gender gap:
A Democratic polling memo released yesterday found that women, who voted for President Bush last year in large numbers, have begun migrating back to their traditional home in the Democratic Party...[the poll] found women picked unnamed Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a 13-point margin...Some pollsters questioned the survey's methodology, objecting to its comparison between actual candidates' performances at the polls and the theoretical takes of unnamed candidates. Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, who issued the memo, defended the methodology, saying, "There's not really anything else we have."I imagine that the DNC tasked the Democratic pollster to provide evidence that the gender gap is alive and well. The Democratic pollster whips together a generic poll of unnammed candidates that comports with their agenda and sends the Washington Post a press release. The Post falls for the bait and runs with the story. Bias dressed up in science and journalism. Nice.
Posted by Rick at May 10, 2005 09:06 AM