Wow, is it really that easy to get the media to go into full attack mode? a) We're given nearly zero visibility on how candidates were selected. Even on the Ri

Wow, is it really that easy to get the media to go into full attack mode? a) We're given nearly zero visibility on how candidates were selected. Even on the Rice website they only list media mentions of the study, I would love to see the original sample, polling selection data, etc http://media.rice.edu/media/Dateline_Rice.asp http://media.rice.edu/media/Dateline_Rice.asp. b) Response Bias alone could swing the results up or down wildly with such a small sample size. c) A piece of the article, reported as fact, is that restaurants are unhappy vs. other business types which they certainly do not have data to support. This is terribly misleading - from the article they surveyed "150 businesses spanning 19 U.S. cities and 13 product categories" indicating ~10 business in each category. For the WSJ & others to report a half-baked study as pure fact without raising any of the questions above is mind boggling.