{"id":211,"date":"2010-12-09T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/12-3\/wheat-from-the-chaff-another-fraser-institute-joke"},"modified":"2011-07-17T19:53:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T02:53:43","slug":"wheat-from-the-chaff-another-fraser-institute-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/211","title":{"rendered":"Another Fraser Institute Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/211\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"blog\"><!-- back and forward --><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogbody\">\n<p><span>I&#8217;m pleased to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/health\/Alarm+over+waiting+lists+ring+agenda\/3943394\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Craig McInnes of the Vancouver Sun<\/a> doesn&#8217;t take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraserinstitute.org\/research-news\/news\/display.aspx?id=17069\" target=\"_blank\">Fraser Institute\u2019s latest salvo<\/a> against Canada&#8217;s surgical wait lists too seriously. A 16% return rate on a voluntary survey makes a mockery of any official conclusions. Little wonder that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraserinstitute.org\/uploadedFiles\/fraser-ca\/Content\/research-news\/research\/publications\/waiting-your-turn-2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report&#8217;s<\/a> authors fail to mention the response rate in their section on methodology, though one can locate the number in the corner of a chart on p. 40. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">It reminds me of the Institute\u2019s refusal to include apprenticeship data in its high school report, data which favours public schools over private schools. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">In both cases, a barely-disguised ideological agenda overrides any concern for credibility. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posted\">Posted by <a href=\"mailto:cwelch@lexiconic.net\">Colin Welch<\/a> at 5:12 PM<br \/>\n<em>Edited on: Thursday, December 09, 2010 5:44 PM<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to see that Craig McInnes of the Vancouver Sun doesn&#8217;t take the Fraser Institute\u2019s latest salvo against Canada&#8217;s surgical wait lists too seriously. A 16% return rate on a voluntary survey makes a mockery of any official conclusions. Little wonder that the report&#8217;s authors fail to mention the response rate in their section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,20],"tags":[67,68],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc-politics","category-canadian-politics","category-the-good-the-bad-and-the-stupid","tag-health-care","tag-social-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}