Sentences with phrase «framing public questions»

In a more general sense, the courtesy we owe to fellow citizens argues for framing public questions in language that invites everyone to participate in the discussion on comfortable terms.

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These are not happy choices, and a political culture that frames our most important public questions in these ways is in trouble.

Public views on even the most familiar of the policy questions surrounding stem cell research are easily swayed in either direction by different framings of the facts and formulations of the questions, and sometimes the same respondents offered starkly opposite answers to similar questions asked in different ways.

While it is a scientist's job to answer genuine scientific questions, getting pulled into contrarian linguistic frames helps maintain the fiction that the science is still riven with fundamental equivocations and therefore too uncertain to form a reliable basis for public policy.

«If environmental decisions are fundamentally framed as questions of economic welfare,» Sagoff concludes, «public officials and the public itself will opt nearly every time for whatever policy promises more economic growth, more production, and more jobs.»

Krosnick and his colleagues also looked at two ways of framing a question about the public's ranking of issues.

But to the degree to which The Public asking what, from a purely scientific viewpoint, might be Unreasonable Questions regarding time frames and attributions of specific phenomena, the standard Bag of Tricks seems strained.

On the one hand, journalists may prefer scientists definitely and unambiguously confirming rather than questioning the public frame of climate change.

Mark Le Blanc, general counsel at educational public broadcaster TVO, says the software «doesn't give you the answer, but if you can frame the question clearly, what they can do is really limit the risk — they're risk tools.

In addressing the question of whether a public service provider should engage directly with the public through social media rather than merely providing information, Dr. Clarke indicated that the literature on public sector social media use tends to frame one - way information provision as being more basic and primitive than uses which support two - way exchanges, with the latter being viewed as a more developed, mature, and beneficial use of social media.

Hitherto the two guiding principles have been that a court should be very reluctant to question a prosecutorial decision, especially where it has been reached on policy or public interest grounds, and second that once the prosecution has framed its indictment the trial judge has no power to «go behind» it and enquire why it is presented in the way that it is.