All apologies to the many fun polls on FrontBurner, but online polls are notoriously poor gauges of public opinion. They are, however, a good vehicle to determine the thoughts/feelings of a site’s audience.
If this is true, then I submit that the readers of the Dallas Morning News education blog are out of step with the rest of the city.
Example No. 90illion of that theory: The online poll the paper put up asking readers to pick the winners of each of the three DISD trustee races. Here are the final online poll results:
Here are the actual final vote percentages, in which we find that the DMN‘s education blog readers — those most keyed into how Dallas feels about DISD, supposedly — are spectacularly wrong:
