Americans have decided, as a society, to use taxes to finance some or all of the schooling of children regardless of their parents’ ability to pay...
Beware of Polls with Slanted Questions
January 1, 2006
The most frequently cited education poll, the annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll, contains a voucher question that has been proven to be extremely sensitive to small changes in wording. In 2004 and 2005, the Friedman Foundation commissioned a poll that asked 500 people the PDK/Gallup question, and 500 people the
same question with two small changes. The results shifted dramatically both times – by 22 and 23 points, respectively.
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