Some of you may already be aware of the University of Washington’s Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality, which recently released a poll purporting to prove that whites who support the tea-party movement are disproportionately racist.

As I detail over at The American Spectator, both the Institute itself and the journalists who reported on the study jumped the gun. In the rush to put out newsworthy results, the Institute analyzed the responses to only some of the questions it had asked. While these questions seemed to suggest that tea partiers are more likely be racist, some other data (uncovered by Cathy Young) show that there’s no real trend one way or the other.