Sentences with phrase «of public opinion data»

The PDK Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools is the most trusted source of public opinion data about K - 12 education because of its rigor, its depth, and its commitment to capturing all voices and viewpoints.

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When asked about the best way forward for Canada's economy in an Abacus Data public opinion survey last year, just one - third suggested Canada should prioritize promoting the use of Canada's oil and gas.

In - depth analyses of elite and public opinion survey data from the United States and China on a wide range of security issues provide nuanced and far - reaching insights into the potential effects of these attitudes on the U.S. - China relationship.

ARI is a national, not - for - profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation established to advance education by commissioning, conducting and disseminating to the public accessible and impartial statistical data, research and policy analysis on economics, political science, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and international affairs and other socio - economic issues of importance to Canada and its world.

But a serious analysis of survey data over time provides little evidence that this fall's election cycle substantially shifted public opinion in favor of legal abortion.

«A study that analyzed data from a national public opinion survey conducted in 2001 found that only 43 % of U.S. adults believed that women should have the right to breastfeed in public places.

«A study that analyzed data from a national public opinion survey conducted in 2001 found that only 43 percent of U.S. adults believed that women should have the right to breastfeed in public places.

Those detailed pieces in turn link to more details and to primary sources if you have them (the polling data that your piece on public opinion is based on, for instance, or a spreadsheet of your opponent's campaign contributions from well - known evildoers).

Professor Rachel Gibson, from The University of Manchester, led the study which used data from a survey of national e-campaign managers and public opinion data.

In my column last week, I noted that current public opinion data and recent election results point to a likely Democratic takeover of the House in the fall.

In order to do so I gathered a dataset of previous English by - elections and changes in public opinion and ran a series of regression models (statistically minded readers can see a brief rundown of my data and methodology here).

The Fix crew interprets the data here (summary: they see an edge for Obama); I'll just add that it'll be interesting to see how shifts in public opinion in the various states will affect the campaigns» allocation of resources to 1) digital advertising, and 2) grassroots outreach.

This prediction takes account of both recent YouGov polling data and the lessons from history about how public opinion moves in the final weeks before general elections.

«This is the kind of rushed policy that gets made during a backroom deal, not a careful assessment of public opinion and scientific data.

The importance of engaging with the public, through storytelling, data - sharing projects that seek public feedback, and other strategies, also took center stage in a session on public opinion and policy.»

The aim of the new AMS study was to gauge public opinion on all types of current and potential future ACHM research, and its data is intended to help shape policy guidelines, which are expected to be released early next year.

When some politicians try to sway public opinion, they employ the tricks of the debating chamber: cherry - picking data, ignoring the consensus opinions of experts, adept use of a sneer or a misplaced comparison, reliance on the power of rhetoric rather than argument.

The practice of science, which includes the packaging of findings from science for use in the public - policy arena, is governed by an unwritten code of conduct that includes such elements as mastering the relevant fundamental concepts before venturing into print in the professional or public arena, learning and observing proper practices for presenting ranges of respectable opinion and uncertainty, avoiding the selection of data to fit pre-conceived conclusions, reading the references one cites and representing their content accurately and fairly, and acknowledging and correcting the errors that have crept into ones work (some of which are, of course, inevitable) after they are discovered by oneself or by others.

She showed some of her public perception data indicating that regular citizens can make nuanced decisions and formulate sophisticated opinions, although they draw upon a variety of factors to do so including history, trust, controllability, familiarity, being informed, and cultural world views.

Among the strengths of this book is the painstaking effort to which Moe has gone to extrapolate from his public opinion data to develop a number of «what if?»

However, our data do not tell us whether the charter presence is causing opinion to change or whether charters took root in these areas because of underlying public support for charter schools.

Some colleagues and I recently published an analysis that uses public opinion data to test a series of hypotheses about just that.

According to the opinion data collected by the Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University, 91 percent of those polled feel that schools should offer career and technical training, curricula that don't necessarily prepare students for college.

An interdisciplinary research team used multiple methods of data collection and analysis, including an examination of public opinion polls; a media scan; observations and interviews with a broad range of actors.

With the push for development of longitudinal data systems during the pit of the Great Recession, many issues surrounding the Common Core State Standards Initiative and its «next generation» tests were not fully vetted in the arena of public opinion partially because it became a «best practice» to «not engage in large scale, open forums.»

In a recent Globe and Mail opinion piece, Josh Gordon, assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, and Anjum Mutakabbir, a master's student at the university's School of Public Policy argue that there are three main data sets that provide evidence of foreign investor impact on the lower mainland's housing prices.

The discrepancy between breed identifications based on opinion and DNA analysis, as well as concerns about reliability of data collected based on media reports, draws into question the validity and enforcement of public and private policies pertaining to dog breeds.

Dr. Cicerone, an atmospheric scientist, added that polls and input he has received from various sources indicate that «public opinion has moved toward the view that scientists often try to suppress alternative hypotheses and ideas and that scientists will withhold data and try to manipulate some aspects of peer review to prevent dissent.

As droughts have worsened, water bottling companies like Coca - Cola, PepsiCo, andNestlé are finding themselves under the microscope of public opinion for taking public water resources, packaging them for substantial profit, and then failing to adequately respond to public concerns about their local impacts, lack of transparency of data sharing, and their role in helping share the burdens imposed by water shortages and drought.

It is noteworthy that the consensus hardliners are strongest in the USA, particularly since public opinion there seems to be the most skeptical (an August 2011 Rasmussen poll showed that close to 70 % of respondents believed that climate scientists were fudging the data).

Fudging and cherry - picking data to «erase» the cooling periods after 1940 and 1998 and to produce the infamous «hockey stick», publishing exceedingly biased studies to convince the public of a 97 % consensus, and revising Wikipedia articles to eliminate opposing evidence and opinions are reprehensible and repugnant actions for anyone working in science.

The manipulation of both data and public opinion are certainly evident in this story.

Utilizing Stimson's method of constructing aggregate opinion measures, data from 74 separate surveys over a 9 - year period are used to construct quarterly measures of public concern over global climate change.

ESM 269 - Survey Design and Environmental Public Opinion [2 units] Gehlbach Issues of survey design, including sampling, questionnaire design, data collection and data processing.

In publishing Dr Brown's opinion, but refusing to publish Dr Marohasy's rebuttal, the Sydney Morning Herald is continuing to withhold important information from the Australian public, in particular most Australians remain ignorant of the fact that all the data used to calculate national temperature trends is homogenised, that this can have an impact on both the magnitude and direction of temperature trends.

At the moment in the US, polling data suggests that the public's opinion has built up against AGW as an important problem, this being the result of decades of efforts by the denialist camp.

Perhaps more pertinently, in this era of liquid surveillance, any strict dichotomy between public and private data processing seems artificial, a point noted by AG Kokott in her Opinion in Promusicae.

The results of two recent studies in the U.S. have used public opinion data to suggest that increasing public support for access to civil justice is a promising way to increase government funding.

While public opinion data shows Americans are now much less prejudiced on the basis of race and sex, and while the crudest forms of such segregation have been eliminated from the American workplace, several studies demonstrate that employment discrimination persists.

In December 14, 2001 and July 11, 2002 letters, the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission jointly urged the Bar to reconsider its opinions requiring lawyers to be physically present during real estate closings and refinancings, stating that the opinions would «likely harm the public,» and that the Bar «provided no factual data to support» its position.

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61 It follows from all of the above that activities such as those involved in the main proceedings, relating to data from documents which are in the public domain under national legislation, may be classified as «journalistic activities» if their object is the disclosure to the public of information, opinions or ideas, irrespective of the medium which is used to transmit them.

62 The answer to the second question should therefore be that Article 9 of the directive is to be interpreted as meaning that the activities referred to at points (a) to (d) of the first question, relating to data from documents which are in the public domain under national legislation, must be considered as activities involving the processing of personal data carried out «solely for journalistic purposes», within the meaning of that provision, if the sole object of those activities is the disclosure to the public of information, opinions or ideas.

«While I have no reason to doubt that the FBI dropped the case because they were able to access the data, many will suspect that it was because the agency was losing in the court of public opinion and was perhaps on the verge of losing in court,» he told the E-Commerce...

Just yesterday, the Case team announced their involvement with former JPMorgan executive Blythe Masters» bitcoin startup Digital Asset Holdings and the development of crypto - security for an interactive marketplace that uses public opinion, news, and other data to produce odds on global event outcomes in a variety of categories including sports, finance and politics, called Pivit.

He described his tenure at the company and how it used advanced data analysis with the aim of influencing public opinion for its clients.

Rather, the VTSIOM public opinion research agency tested the technology with exit polls on March 18th, noting that it «prevented any external changes to the collected data, decreased the effectiveness of hack attacks and ensured the transparency of the data collection and aggregation.»

• Conducted 300 - 500 surveys each week and collected resulting data in a variety of ways, including focus groups, interviews, public opinion polls, questionnaires, file reviews, market analysis surveys, and literature reviews.

I bash Realtysellers et al because in my opinion they / he / them / it etc. move (s) forward in their war against the TREB within the court system in my opinion with what are known in legal circles as «Dirty Hands» vis a vis their unauthorized illegal skimming of MLS data from the MLS data base, thereafter providing same to a third party, non-MLS member for public distribution, for which offense the TREB rightfully kicked the miscreants off the MLS, at least according to the court decision to that effect backing up the TREB's defense of the miscreants» allegation of the TREB's wrongdoing.

The Department of Numbers contextualizes public data so that individuals can form independent opinions on everyday social and economic matters.