Sentences with phrase «influence public thinking»

Simply put, the Hockey Stick graph is a powerful propaganda tool used to influence public thinking and thus policy.

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DN: I think the Federal Reserve policy is the single biggest overriding influence in the public markets today.

Published by the conservative think - tank Fraser Institute, the report's goal is to influence public policy and «set the record straight» on «wildly off - base» reports on financial costs of raising children.

Further, it is understood that emphasis should be on recruitment of Directors who bring more than credentials or designations by contributing to a culture that accelerates business success by advocating and influencing public policy, developing business leaders, connecting businesses and presenting thought leaders.

A bot is thought to be behind the posting of thousands of messages to the FCC's website, in an apparent attempt to influence the results of a public solicitation for feedback on net neutrality.

The libertarian threat to higher education in the name of productivity is seen in the «public policy» think tanks influencing Republican governors to «disrupt» higher education by holding it to the standard of measurable competencies, sometimes beginning and ending with salaries offered to graduates.

There are no doubt many significant reasons as to why this is the case but one aspect which needs to be considered is the extent to which some lobbying groups have advanced their views to influence thinking in public life.

I hardly think that 3.5 million dollars could make much difference in influencing public opinion.

His (very diverse) public has had a significant influence on the explication of his thinking, not least because most of his texts were, originally, composed as lectures and only later published in print.

The benefits provided by the modern media permit us to make our views known to our MPs and to anyone we think has influence in framing law and in forming, and informing, public opinion.

«In the United States, evangelicals feels like they're losing influence because the elite culture isn't sympathetic or sees them as intolerant - which I don't think it is the case, but it's how they're perceived,» said Cromartie, who directs the Evangelicals in Civic Life program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.

Public schools are instruments of power - a way for the government to influence the way its subjects think.

Shah, we found out, used to think Israelis should be relocated en masse to America, compared Israelis to Hitler, issued a public warning that «the Jews are rallying» (to take part in an opinion poll) and tweeted a link to an article which compared Zionism to al - Qaeda, and fretted that the Zionists are «grooming» Jews to «exert political influence at the highest levels of public office.»

Comey, in the most impassioned and public defense of how he handled the case, also said it made him feel «mildly nauseous» to think his actions in October might have influenced the 20 16 presidential race.

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

«It was influenced by one question only, and what I thought that question was: Can I make an argument to the public to give me a chance to work for them once again as I did as attorney general, as assistant district attorney, as governor?»

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

Behavioural science thinking is now shaping public policy, so Robert Cialdini's book Influence.

«I think 9 percent from one industry is starting to become a significant portion of his overall funds, such that the public might perceive the industry could have an outsized influence,» said Alex Camarda of government watchdog group Reinvent Albany, noting that such contributions are legal.

This period will allow the general public to vote for individuals - whose names had earlier been submitted - who they think influenced them positively in 2017.

What you call British influence sounds more like suffering British effluence to me You also opine as a wistful afterthought... «but I expect one day we will have another public referendum on this» You think?

«While I congratulate her on the appointment, I think she will need to reassure the public that her ties to the current government won't influence her ability to carry out the role fairly.

A new YouGov poll suggests that the majority of the public think that Tony Blair is sleazy, the way honours are distributed are corrupt and that rich donors have too much influence over the Labour party.

«I was trying to think what are ways to restore public's confidence that special interests don't have overwhelming influence,» said Gillibrand, who promised during her campaign to publicize her schedule.

But if individual scientists doing what they love and advancing their own spheres of influence, impact and support on Instagram are even to the tiniest extent create greater public exposure to minority scientists and changing stereotypes via social media (which I believe they are, based on data), I think some freaking celebration is deserved.

Members of the public are evenly divided in their thinking about the influence of teachers unions: 37 % say they have «a generally positive effect on schools,» while 37 % say they have «a generally negative effect.»

Two schools of thought influence Price's public - academy idea.

Scores are intended to acknowledge scholars whose body of work influences our thinking and who are actively engaged in public discourse.

I think the federal government is limited in its impact on education, but I'd encourage the president to use his influence to promote increased accountability in public education.

Another obstacle lies with public - sector unions whose coffers and political influence benefit from solidarity thinking.

In an effort to do this, the Teacher Salary Project has increased public awareness, pushed to influence policy, provided thought leadership, and shared stories and research, including The New York Times bestselling Teachers Have it Easy; the Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers and the nationally acclaimed feature length film, American Teacher.

To help provide the answers people need, Faces of Learning is asking people to share personal stories of their most powerful learning experiences; attend and / or organize public events at which people think together about how to improve the local conditions in which people learn; and use a new interactive tool called the Learner Sketch, which invites users to explore their own strengths and challenges among the various mental processes that influence learning.

The organization representing more than 600 public school boards across the state says how science is taught in the classroom will influence how a generation of students think about climate change.

Changing My Mind is divided into four sections — «Reading,» «Being,» «Seeing» and «Feeling» — and the essays cover topics ranging from personal experiences traveling the world to authors who have influenced her own writing to thoughts on public figures like Katharine Hepburn and President Obama to advice and lessons on the writing process.

TOP PICK IN COOKBOOKS Michael Pollan, our foremost foodie public intellectual, has had a powerful influence on how we eat, cook and think about food.

In curating Public Fiction, Mackler is equally influenced by writing, reading, researching, thinking, collaborating, and making.

Less about looking at the image as an object, or the thing unto itself, this exhibition beckons the viewer to think about the history of the photograph, its relationship to writing with light, and its ability to influence politics and public opinion.

This first appears in a discussion of how ecologist Richard Levins of the Harvard School of Public Health influenced Epstein's thinking on public hPublic Health influenced Epstein's thinking on public hpublic health.

But I think we have to expect that the Paris agreement will evolve as the seriousness of our global predicament grows on the public (and on the corporations and governing bodies that have such an undue influence in energy supply matters.)

Moreover, on issues such as climate change or evolution, scientists and their organizations are often distracted by over-estimating the size and influence of these groups and by thinking that the goal of communication is to convince these particular publics to accept expert interpretations or proposed policy actions.

With all do respect to the RC staff, I think some of the critics of this post greatly overestimate the influence RC has on the general public's understanding of global warming.

When we communicate with the public, I personally think that it is very important that we are clear about how we are going about asking the scientific question, and where we can objectively detect a human influence and where we can't.

Many people (including me) who are involved in science and technology perceive that climate science is influenced by political thinking, personal priorities / values, and desires for specific public policies, and that has caused (and continues to cause) delay in progress toward a more complete and accurate understanding of Earth's climate.

Unfortunately, that perspective fails to account for the mechanism by which motivated reasoning influences how the public interpret what climate scientists do and don't say and how motivated reasoning influences what the public think about the prevalence of shared view among climate scientists w / r / t the related uncertainties.

Judith says «You can judge for yourself to what extent writing books or blogging or think tank reports influence the scientific and public debate on climate change.»

CAP has two blogs, Think Progress and Climate Progress, both of which serve to educate the public on and influence policy at the Federal level.

As the influence of environmental thinking has increased its hold over the political establishment, the failure to win the public support that might create the basis for decisive action to save the planet has also increasingly been blamed on climate sceptics operating on the internet.

In this regard, we should be thinking about media organizations that we can influence and which have audiences where we can make progress in terms of engagement with the goal of widening the scope of public concern and participation on the issue.

It happens to land at a public university, otherwise known as a liberal think tank that influences government policy, and it seems me pointing this out to you bothers you for some reason.

when she first said we'd be fooling ourselves to think that ACO2 influenced dominated climate change on a decadal scale, whether her public statement would contradict the conclusions of the study she co-authored.