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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.

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The findings appear to show that public attitudes about the media are «more complex and nuanced than many traditional studies indicate,» according to the American Press Institute, which conducted the study as part of a collaborative effort with the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Respublic attitudes about the media are «more complex and nuanced than many traditional studies indicate,» according to the American Press Institute, which conducted the study as part of a collaborative effort with the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs ResPublic Affairs Research.

We should not, in the name of public health, cultivate an attitude that makes it more difficult for those suffering to access what relief they have been able to find.

This attitude has also been held among scientists until recently, when the creationist pressures on public education and policy became so threatening that some scientists founded a new journal, Creation / Evolution, a «Committee of Correspondence» and a Creation / Evolution News letter, aimed at defending evolutionary science and dismantling creationist arguments.

While culture war issues make headlines galore, an exhaustive study of Americans» religious attitudes shows the public as a whole might not find the debate so enticing.

Roger Harding, head of public attitudes at the National Centre for Social Research who produced a report into the findings, was quoted by The Times as saying: «It suggests people are taking their moral views from elsewhere.»

Another facet of the Christian's problematic relationship to the public - order - and - safety issue may be found in our conscious or unconscious acceptance of the popular liberal attitude toward history.

A sense of the changed attitude toward sport — not only among students but among a large, variegated public — can be found in a recent play, The Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler.

It would be interesting to see if this fear of the opposite sex is occurring elsewhere, like Europe; I can't find any research on it but it's clear that Europeans generally have much healthier and relaxed attitudes about sex, and European women are eager to participate in public life.

Ingram and Johnson worked with fathers to increase breastfeeding support for mothers and found that fathers» attitudes to breastfeeding in public and knowing how much milk the baby was getting had the most influence on whether they supported their partner to continue to breastfeed [52].

I have been at presentations and discussions of UK attitudes to Europe where studies of UK public opinion seem to have found (perhaps counterintuitively) that there is relatively little sense among the public of there being a pro-EU so anti-US (or pro-US so less pro-EU) constituency among the public, though both are fairly common positions among certain elite opinion former groups on left and right.

Conservative backbencher Harriett Baldwin, who was instrumental in persuading coalition ministers that a commission was needed on the issue, told politics.co.uk the commission found a «strong public attitude» on the issue.

EVAW called for «Compulsory Sex and Relationships Education to ensure that all schools tackle harmful attitudes and behaviours amongst young people», and this was accompanied by a survey by YouGov which found that 86 per cent of the public thinking that «it should be compulsory for secondary schools to provide sex and relationships education which addresses sexual consent and respectful relationships» — with 48 per cent also thinking this for primary schools.

A survey published by the Department for Transport on «Public attitudes towards road congestion», which was carried out between November 2009 and February 2010, found that over half of adults agreed that the current system of paying for road use should change so that the amount people paid was based on how often, when and where they used the roads.

In a sign that public attitudes towards drugs are becoming decidedly more liberal, an Ipsos - MORI poll for the Transform Drug Policy Foundation found 53 % of people want cannabis legalised, while just 14 % want tougher penalties for users.

Ipsos Mori's research over many years has found fairness hard - wired in public attitudes towards public services (think «postcode lotteries») and welfare.

What O'Rahilly finds particularly irksome about public attitudes, and what he hopes his research will overturn, is our peculiar habit of blaming the victims of these ills for their misfortune.

«What's striking about these findings is that politics sometimes is at the center of the story about public attitudes and sometimes politics has very little to do with the way people think about science issues in the public arena.

A study of 172 University of Texas students enrolled in a «responsible conduct of research» course, for example, found «no significant change» in attitudes after training, says Elizabeth Heitman of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston.

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

Limited evidence shows that populations around the world have positive attitudes toward science and support public funding for scientific research, and these attitudes have been generally stable over time, the committee found.

«The 37th Annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools» found that 68 percent of the 1,000 respondents do not think a single test provides an accurate picture of how...

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

The poll found that attitudes are changing; three of every four Americans favor fixing up the nation's schools instead of spending public money for vouchers.

The 2013 PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Towards the Public Schools found that of those who had heard of the Common Core, 49 percent of respondents agree with the false statement that the initiative will create standards in all subjects, and 39 percent agree with the false statement that the Common Core was developed based on a blend of state standards.

The issue that Terry Moe raises in his article «Cooking the Questions» in the Spring 2002 issue of Education Next concerns Phi Delta Kappa's interpretations of findings from the 2001 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll of the public's attitudes toward education.

«Most Americans misunderstand charter schools,» was the finding of the 2014 PDK / Gallup poll on public attitudes toward education.

Those were some of the finding of the 2017 PDK Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.

The 2014 PDK / Gallup Poll on attitudes toward public education found that a majority of Americans favor charter schools, while at the same time, not fully understanding how they operate (Bushaw & Calderon, 2014).

Good Morning In the just released PDK survey of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, there is a «secret» finding showing that support for school vouchers is rising (despite the odd survey question wording).

In the just released PDK survey of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, there is a «secret» finding showing that support for school vouchers is rising (despite the odd survey question wording).

(Alexandria, Va. — August 23, 2015) In its advance review of the newly - released 47th Annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is pleased to find strong public support for local governance, resistance to vouchers, and high marks for local scPublic's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is pleased to find strong public support for local governance, resistance to vouchers, and high marks for local scPublic Schools, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is pleased to find strong public support for local governance, resistance to vouchers, and high marks for local scpublic support for local governance, resistance to vouchers, and high marks for local schools.

10:15 AM — 11:00 AM Measuring the Public's Attitudes Toward Public Schools (CLICK HERE for presentation) During this presentation, Dr. Starr will explain the major findings of the 49th annual PDK Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward Public Schools.

(A) The Council further finds that the public mind - set toward animals must shift to the more progressive, humane, and compassionate attitude evident in other jurisdictions with stricter animal laws.

Her work is included in private and public collections, has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, ArtForum, Mousse, and Art in America, and her own writing on repetition and photography («The Serial Attitude Redux», «The Expansion of the Instant: Photography, Anxiety, Infinity») can be found in X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly.

It consistently finds that the composition of the public's climate attitudes are a lot more complex than that perceived dichotomy: Over a third are very concerned, many are ambivalent or apathetic, and only a small sliver actually believe in the fringe - y conspiracy nonsense (i.e. Al Gore made it all up, it's a plot by scheming scientists, or an intergovernmental conspiracy to enact a new world order — take your pick).

The present authors have all been subject to such attacks, whose similarity is notable because the authors» research spans a broad range of topics and disciplines: The first author has investigated the psychological variables underlying the acceptance or rejection of scientific findings; the second author is a paleoclimatologist who has shown that current global temperatures are likely unprecedented during the last 1,000 years or more; the third and fourth authors are public - health researchers who have investigated the attitudes of teenagers and young adults towards smoking and evaluated a range of tobacco control interventions; and the fifth author has established that human memory is not only fallible but subject to very large and systematic distortions.

For the present time, I find it fascinating that, when Ms Freese mentions on page 191 of her 2003 «Coal: A Human History» book that the coal industry «launched public relations campaigns to influence public attitudes, including some highly misleading ones.

In reviewing major comprehensive government reports on climate engineering it was all too often that I would search «ethics» or «public attitudes» and find only a single page or paragraph of hundreds of pages dedicated to these issues.

Public perception of the scientific consensus has been found to be a gateway belief, affecting other climate beliefs and attitudes including policy support.

The Public Attitudes to Science survey, carried out by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the UK government, provides the biggest regional breakdown within the various polling archives we could find, splitting the country into 12 government administrative regions.

The challenge of finding a point of balance between these two worlds can be exacerbated by general public attitudes concerning «real Aborigines» and the motives for people choosing to identify as such, or by having to face the racism that often manifests in their contact with the wider society.

We're always on the lookout for intriguing findings that may not initially get much public attention, but suggest unrecognized changes in people's attitudes and beliefs.

How to Talk About Budgets and Taxes: A FrameWorks MessageMemo This MessageMemo summarizes the findings from our research and provides advocates with a communications map for improving the public's understanding of the linked topics of budgets and taxes, and for shifting attitudes and support for policy alternatives.

The mass media can play an important role in providing health information and related issues for parents and caregivers.10 However, adolescents are typically portrayed in the media as hostile, violent, delinquent, alienated from parents and families, and resistant to any assistance.3, 51,52 In news and television coverage, content analyses found that adolescents are depicted as perpetrators or victims of crime and violence, problem - ridden and disruptive.51, 52 In addition to the mass media images, public attitudes towards adolescents are predominately negative.51 A population approach to build a climate of public interest and responsiveness will require actively working towards counteracting the predominantly negative media coverage of adolescents.3 Media messages can raise parents» awareness and willingness to attend parenting programmes by normalizing their experiences of receiving professional support.

I am not one that would put down any Real Estate Sales Person from any Province and find that does nothing but inflame the public and their overall attitude towards us.