Sentences with phrase «opinions shifted by»
When the test subjects learned that a large number of experts favored a position, opinions shifted by 11.3 %.
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«The battleground has shifted to the legal courts and the court of public opinion,» he said, referring to lawsuits filed by tribes and an effort planned by the Lakota People's Law Project to rally lawmakers and others in Washington, D.C., to their cause.
We have shifted from reading the Bible for ourselves to reading short Bible verses or opinions shared by others.
Research indicates that when opinions, attitudes, or behavior do shift under the impact of communications, they tend to regress to the preexisting position unless they are reinforced by events, other communications, or group pressures.
He failed to make an impression at Bournemouth and on the back of one full 90 minutes against a lower division side there is a clamour for him to replace the likes of Ramsay, Xhaka and Elneny who is in my opinion the best defensive midfielder at Arsenal.Wenger is absolutely correct on this occasion when he points that it is up to Wiltshire to stake a claim to a regular midfield berth by stringing together a number of consistently good performances.I sincerely hope he can but please, no more of this hype after a 90 minute shift.
One of the latest shifts in European opinion against Villar was the financial coup achieved by the major western clubs last week in seizing ever greater control of the organisation and revenues of the Champions League and Europa League.
By this I mean that New Labour was ruthless about how to position / market / message in relation to existing public opinion, but had little sense of how it might shift underlying public opinion.
He later met her in 2008 after the Glasgow by - election and wanted to see if there was a shift in opinion, but didn't sense there was any.
Underlying party support in Britain is pretty stable — if you graph opinion polls over the last couple of years it's clear that the only events that have actually shifted political support have been David Cameron's election as Conservative leader, which moved the Labour and Conservative parties pretty much neck and neck, and the week prior to the local elections when Labour was hit by both John Prescott's affair and the foreign prisoner release scandal, since when the Conservatives have had a consistent lead.
The 2017 election rewrote the rules, and though the opinion polls did well in tracking the Corbyn rise and the stagnant Tory vote, the experts largely missed the increasing popularity of Corbyn though by the time Paul Mason wrote in the FT on June 3rd that «the UK is not a left wing country, but it is a fair one that has had enough of austerity» — he captured something of the shifts taking place, and the shifts are not all to Labour.
Over time opinions began to shift as overwhelming evidence of ill effects was made public by more and more scientists and health administrators.
On the other hand, Kelly said, opinion polls in the states pummeled by Sandy — Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey — show the president so far ahead that low turnout is unlikely to shift those states» electoral votes to Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
David Konisky of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs analyzed 20 years of survey results from Gallup public opinion polls in one of the first major studies of how attitudes about the environment by self - identified U.S. Christians have shifted over time.
Finally, the «Disengaged» comprise about 15 percent of the public, appear to lack strong beliefs about how science might impact society, and as a consequence are likely to be the most susceptible to shifts in opinion driven by high profile news coverage or political messaging.
By comparison, President Barack Obama, during his first year in office, was able to shift overall public opinion in the direction he preferred on multiple education issues, as we saw from similar experiments we performed as part of our 2009 survey.
◦ Trend: Public support for school vouchers targeted toward low - income families has dropped by 12 percentage points since 2012 — a major shift in public opinion.
Still, our findings suggest that a well - publicized stance taken by a popular president on an education issue might shift the opinions of large segments of the American public.
In this instance, a small alteration in wording shifted public opinion by 5 percentage points.
In the case of spending, however, learning the truth shifted opinion by a larger margin (see Figure 5b).
Support has declined by 10 percentage points since 2013, suggesting that opinion has shifted in response to the media attention the issue has received during the ongoing Vergara v. California litigation over the constitutionality of tenure (see «Reaping the Whirlwind,» legal beat, Fall 2016).
In early 2009, exposure to the president's views had the effect of shifting public opinion in the direction of the president's by 13 percentage points on merit pay and 11 percentage points on charters and vouchers (see Figure 8).
Legal experts who wish to circumvent the recent Supreme Court decision by shifting from race to family income clearly have yet to make much headway in the court of public opinion.
After 1950 its effects were compounded by the shift public - opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich details in New Rules from the ethic of self - denial to the ethic of self - fulfillment.
To understand how public opinions shift, Howell and West embedded a series of experiments within the Education Next / PEPG survey by dividing respondents into randomly chosen groups: some were simply asked their opinion about school spending and teacher salaries, while others were first provided with accurate information about each of these issues.
Among those who underestimate expenditures by more than $ 5,000, the downward opinion shift, upon being informed of real levels, is 20 percentage points.
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Everything from critical opinion in the gaming press to consumer responses online has been coloured by this shifting perspective we have on our consoles.
In short I don't think my new, adjusted opinion has been shifted by this newer version of the game, despite some improvements.
JOINING FORCES with Cathérine Hug of Kunsthaus Zürich, curator Anne Umland of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, assembled roughly two hundred opinion - shifting works by the wildly mercurial Franco - Cubanartist Francis Picabia (1879 — 1953).
The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.
The evidence points in the direction that they are not chaotic, so unless anyone can prove they are chaotic, most of the scientific community (i.e. the IPCC, et al.) are of the opinion that they are not chaotic, but are generated by predictable periodic shifts (such as variation of axial tilt or distance from the sun).
In the case of inconsistent or erratic deployment (either because of shifting public opinions or unilateral action by individual nations), there would be the potential for large and rapid temperature oscillations between cold and warm climate states.
By editing CNN and PBS news stories so that some saw a skeptic included in the report, others saw a story in which the skeptic was edited out and another group saw no video, Krosnick found that adding 45 seconds of a skeptic to one news story caused 11 % of Americans to shift their opinions about the scientific consensus.
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The campaign quickly spread to many parts of the world, and by 2015 thousands of divestment campaigns were underway, helping shift public opinion in favour of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and highlighting the moral urgency of climate action.
OPINION A quiet but decisive shift is underway from wind measurement systems that have been overtaken by advanced sensor technology, argues Pascal Storck
The ad hominem part is typical Monbiot, attributing to his opponents caricatural views, hypocritical shifts of opinion, and guilt by association with right wing groups and personalities.
Whilst a few simpletons may be swayed by your argument, I predict that this latest example of extreme variablity in our weather patterns, even predicted by some scientists as a consequence of global warming, will not shift the near unanimous body of opinion of the world's scientists that global warming is real and that it is here now.
By empowering youth to take action within a frame of justice and optimism, we are growing and strengthening the climate movement, and shifting the national discourse on climate in ways that are proven to affect public opinion and policy.
Mar. 24, 2016)-- joint opinion by Circuit Judges O'Scannlain and Ikuta as well as District Judge Burns (sitting by assignment); discussed in our Mar. 28, 2016 post: Prevailing party in bankruptcy non-dischargeability action is not entitled to recover fees under either California Civil Code section 1717 or ERISA's fee shifting provision.
It's not just a wording tweak, it's a shift in opinion, delivered by software update.
However, it seems obvious that the benefits far outweigh any perceived negatives and there's an ongoing shift of opinion in the way apprenticeships are thought of by the public and employers.