FRA admits: the LGBT Survey does not reflect the real situation

By J.C. von Krempach, J.D. | May 25, 2013

A short postscript to our reporting of the bogus “LGBT Survey” published by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA).

As our readers will remember, that survey was trumpeted in the mass media and by certain politicians as indicating that “discrimination” and “hate crimes” against people with unusual “sexual orientations” is widespread in Europe. But in actual fact the Survey was deliberately designed to produce exactly that outcome: in fact it was no real survey, but rather an electronic mailbox where LGBT could complain anonymously and without providing any verifiable facts about alleged discriminations.

The only insight this “Survey” provides is that we now know that there is a certain quantity of people who have made use of that possibility. But given the possibility of multiple replies, even this result is not certain.

With conspicuously less media and political attention the FRA has now released the Technical Report, drawn up by Gallup, the institute that has carried out this survey at a cost of 370.000 Euro for European taxpayers. (Apparently Gallup still sense the danger this kind of “research” poses for their own reputation…)

In this Technical Report we read (at p. 27):

“… it is not possible to confirm to what extent the sample obtained in the FRA survey corresponds to the true characteristics of the LGBT population.”

I should think this settles the matter.

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