“There’s a fundamental problem, though, with asking journalists—or anyone—to respond to critiques that question the work they do,” writes Nikki Usher for CJR. “And in social science, there’s a methodological problem too, a ‘self-report bias’ that makes it hard for people to accurately assess what they do as opposed to what they say they do.”
This idea explains the disconnect Usher found when she set out to illustrate the point of a December Pew Research Center report on the D.C.
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