Sentences with phrase «public attitudes»

Does ignorance about these factual matters bear on public attitudes toward school spending?

The use of the word «medical» seems to have an even larger impact on public attitudes.

Under the traditional «deficit model» of public attitudes towards science, it is assumed that these attitudes are shaped directly by scientific knowledge.

Combined with a transformative manifesto, the shift in public attitudes in a six - week campaign was unprecedented.

The survey tracks public attitudes about science in society and maps the contours of opinion on a wide range of issues within the domain of science and technology.

Here's a look at three different measures of public attitudes toward public education.

The proliferation of such programmes and their impact are, rightly or wrongly, shaping public attitudes to welfare and policy, the study concludes.

General public attitudes towards online dating have become much more positive in recent years, and social networking sites are now playing a prominent role when it comes to navigating and documenting romantic relationships.

The survey examines public attitudes about the potential use of three emerging technologies that could fundamentally improve people's health, cognitive abilities or physical capacities.

Researchers surveyed almost 5000 people to explore public attitudes towards scientific breakthroughs that may change what it means to be human.

Wouldn't the pressure be on to reflect back existing public attitudes rather than to challenge them where they need challenging?

The chart below highlights the wide mix of factors tied to public attitudes across a broad set of 22 science issues.

I have not seen anybody else produce such detailed attitudes research on the dynamics of how different principles of need, desert and entitlement interact in current public attitudes.

Public attitudes prevent them from being effective in their jobs.

Academic studies are providing new insights into the human - animal bond, while opinion surveys reveal trends in public attitudes toward spay / neuter and other pet - related issues.

Public attitudes about climate change have become increasingly contentious over the past several years.

Yet, this high interest in zombies enables researchers to link zombie - like behaviours to current models of public attitudes and actions.

The adverse effect of such stories on public attitude is palpable.

At the same time, public attitudes towards online dating have grown more positive in the last eight.

It took barely a decade for public attitudes to reverse.

Environmental militant groups are said to use economic sabotage, which includes destruction of property, to try to change public attitudes about environmental damage caused by businesses, including harm caused by sprawl.

«Parents» reasons for not vaccinating children influence public attitudes toward them.»

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

The vast bulk of public attitude research in this field shows exactly that: people want an open field of providers who are allowed to deliver services, and this view is especially strong among the poorest, the very people most often denied decent care.

It's possible that Trump's vivid embrace of choice will shift public attitudes on which party they trust for schooling.

«Facebook has been on trial in the past 12 months in the court of public opinion,» said Stephen Hahn - Griffiths, chief research officer at the Reputation Institute, which assesses public attitudes.»

Leading the Stanford research team was Jon Krosnick, a professor of communication and political science, who has been looking at public attitudes on environmental issues since the late 1990s.

In practice, MAD never became part of America's strategic doctrine and it can be considered an artifact of a set of historical circumstances, including, among others, the general public attitudes against the military during the Vietnam War, which complicated the possibility of making expensive improvements to the military arsenal.

New research into public attitudes around the UK's withdrawal from the EU has round that most people think no - one is winning from Brexit, negotiations are going badly and it won't end well.

In truth, the general election after this one may be the most critical, for if a new group of politicians come into Parliament, and the public, after five years, sense that little has changed, then public attitudes to politics and politicians may plummet still further.

That opinion is thoroughly undefined, and those politicians who seek to hang their cause on strong public attitudes are fooling themselves, or trying to fool the rest of us.

While Labour activists claim many voters are cynical about Conservative plans for the economy, opposition campaigners are being buoyed by public attitudes towards the recession as polling day approaches.

Peter Kellner discusses public attitudes towards the Royal Charter following the parliamentary debate (Comments: 3)

The policy was readily adopted by the coalition because it is Lib - Dem friendly and could save the Treasury money, but with public attitudes hardening since the riots and Tory backbenchers increasingly restless, observers worry it will be rolled back when parliament returns.

Safe Is Not Enough Michael Sadowski There has been a sea change in public attitudes around gender and sexuality, yet progress on LGBTQ issues in schools has moved slowly, writes Michael Sadowski, Ed.M.»

Peter Kellner considers our recent polling for the Sunday Times to explore public attitudes surrounding this divisive issue

It's 16 - by 20 - inches dimensions, quite small by mid-century standards, suggests a less public attitude, one that encourages experiment by amplifying the effects of serendipity, and tolerating unorthodox results.

«So public attitudes have to be changed, just as they have been in relation to environmental issues and smoking, with greater or lesser success.

8:30 AM — 9:15 AM Keynote: Dr. Joshua Starr, CEO, PDK International Understanding Public Attitudes About Schools During this presentation, Dr. Starr will discuss new polling data that shows the public's current attitudes about public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; and more.

Those pollsters who do seek a more thorough understanding of public attitudes find a marked lack of knowledge of the basic facts and even an acknowledgment of that ignorance — resulting in uncertain and highly malleable opinions.

Shifts in financing and public attitudes also could make the arrangement short - lived in some districts.

The Guardian further noted that «78 % [of participants] said they are «very concerned» about the impacts of climate change,» and «89 % said that climate change should be a national priority in their country» according to the poll, which is «believed to be the most comprehensive survey of global public attitudes to climate change ever conducted.»