Sentences with phrase «percent saying belief»

Among Christians, believing in God tops the list, with (somehow only) 86 percent saying belief in God is «essential» to their Christian identity.

Sixteen percent of respondents said that Obama's views were somewhat different from their own, and 35 percent said his beliefs were very different.

Not exact matches

In the end, deGrasse Tyson held firm to his belief that Pluto deserves to be a dwarf planet, saying that Pluto is «only awesome, minus 10 percent», despite Colbert bribing him with a Klondike bar to change his mind and reinstate Pluto as a planet.

Americans were a bit more divided: 44 percent said those groups should not be allowed to have required beliefs, while 51 percent said they should.

In 2013, 65 percent of Millennial Christians said they had shared their religious beliefs with someone in the last 12 months.

About 85 percent of Christians and Muslims say belief in God is essential to what their faith means to them, reports Pew.

He points out that 80 percent of Americans «say» that their moral beliefs are derived from religious sources.

But Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford University, said the only group affected by cold weather in terms of belief about climate change is the 30 percent of the population who distrust scientists.

Belief in the idea that people contribute to warming rose 5 points between 2011 and 2013, to 16 percent, Arbuckle said.

And he said that contrary to popular belief, scientific literacy is actually going up in the United States, although it's now at only 28 percent.

Despite widespread belief that the iPad might threaten netbook adoption, only 22 percent of consumers said they would use it instead of the device.

«Word of mouth plus ease of discoverability at Amazon has driven 99 percent of my nearly 50,000 sales, and during a time when the general indie belief is that one needs to advertise all the time to stay visible,» he says.

Carney's belief that Canadians are heeding the warning to cut consumer spending also appears to have some validity to it — 66 percent of the 3,5000 respondents from across Canada said they were trying to save more, up from 40 percent in last year's survey.

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.»

«We had been operating under the belief that having to meet the 75 percent of power requirement in the contract with the IESO [Independent Electricity System Operator] actually meant something,» said Walsh.

«Contrary to popular belief, landowners who harvest or thin their forests are the individuals doing more for wildlife — 85 percent of those who have harvested have also implemented other wildlife - improvement activities, compared to 62 percent by those who haven't harvested,» AFF president and CEO Tom Martin said in a statement.

Tom, Part of the problem is that people have started to adopt the Bayesian estimates as their personal beliefs, and dressing it up in this language enables them to present it to the anti-Bayesians (of which there is still a substantial body) without the latter actually understanding what went into the sausage factory... Here is an random example of someone (cited in that IPCC figure) saying as the result of their simple analysis «there is a 70 percent chance that [sensitivity] exceeds the maximum IPCC value».

Around one third say they unplug to be more present in the moment (35 percent) or to relieve stress (34 percent), while 23 percent disconnect in order to better connect with their spiritual beliefs.