Sentences with phrase «questioned in a survey said»

One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack.

Only 12 % of those questioned in the survey said they thought the Libya campaign had validated the findings of the strategic defence and security review.

These speeds also approach what ALS patients questioned in a survey said they would want from a BCI device.

Not exact matches

Half of those questioned in a recent CIPD survey said they were perfectly happy with a zero hours arrangement.

The winners also score big on survey questions related to employee loyalty, with more than nine in 10 team members over 52 saying they're proud of what they accomplish and that they want to stay with their employers for a long time.

David Littell, retirement income program director at The American College, said he expected to see gaps in the financial knowledge of the survey respondents, but even so, the results to the 38 questions were dismaying.

«The more questions that you ask, the more facets of it you get at, the more you minimize the margin of error, the more you minimize the noise in any survey,» VanAmburg says.

«You won't use these purpose statements in the final online survey, but you will find that they help test if each question is really meaningful,» Ambler says.

«We collect an assortment of data, from how long a viewer stayed in the webinar to how many links they clicked, whether they took surveys when prompted, questions they asked, widgets they opened, and so on,» says Matt Ley, The Streaming Network President.

«In Canada as in the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other data from the survey reveal a high level of interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertaintIn Canada as in the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other data from the survey reveal a high level of interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertaintin the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other data from the survey reveal a high level of interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertainty.

The survey, commissioned by the Be Real Campaign, found that just over one in four (26 %) of the secondary age youngsters questioned said their appearance is one of the biggest worries about going back to school.

Paul Blakey from Chistian organisation «Love your Streets», which encourges people to engage with their communites has questioned the survey's accuracy anecdotally though, on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «certainly that's not my experience in the neighbourhood where I live, we all get on; the other week my neighbour's car battery died so I lent him my car so he could get to work on time».

Nevertheless, the denomination - run survey in 1997, to which 8,100 members responded, tallied 9.9 percent who said they were «lifelong members» in answering one question and, to another question on what influenced them to join the UUA, 10.4 percent said, «I was born into UUism.»

«If the word «political» is in the [survey] item, the average Protestant will react negatively,» said David S. Schuller, a project consultant from the Association of Theological Schools: This finding confirms suspicions, but it also raises questions.

«Pope Francis is starting off with a huge reservoir of goodwill in the U.S. Eighty - eight percent of American Catholics questioned in our survey approve of his selection as pope,» says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

I'm saying the regular questions were given to the survey company by Tottenham, and then the survey company's software inserted some procedural questions in between to get a feel for the user's demographics.

Residents who weren't chosen to be part of the study could answer the same questions in an online form, though the results of the online survey will be presented separately because they might not be representative, Grimes said.

A survey by the Youth Justice Board found almost half of the boys and one girl in six questioned said they had carried a weapon.

The NASUWT Cost of Education survey 2014, which questioned parents and carers about the costs associated with sending their children to school found: Two thirds of parents said that uniform had to be purchased from a particular supplier, compared to 57 % in 2012.

«Those survey questions provided me with the spark to vent and write deprecating humor about a bad President for whom the main stream media continues to seek an undeserved legacy,» Paladino said in the statement.

However Mr Cameron came out on top in a YouGov survey for The Sun, with 36 per cent of the people questioned saying he won the debate, against 32 per cent for Mr Clegg and 29 per cent for Mr Brown.

Twenty - three percent of those questioned in a CNN - Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday say that Cheney is the country's worst vice president, when compared to his predecessors.

More than six out of 10 New Yorkers questioned in a Marist College survey released Thursday said it's wrong for the White House to suggest that Gov. David Paterson not run next year for election to a full term.

According to a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday morning, 61 percent of people questioned say Paterson should finish out his term, which runs through the end of this year, with 31 percent calling for him to step down, in the wake of a political scandal that ended his hopes of running for a full term in office.

«I certainly am not a racist,» Paladino said in an open letter to Artvoice, the Buffalo alt - weekly that asked him questions for a year - end survey and published his completely bonkers answers.

When the annual British Social Attitudes survey started in 1983, about 55 per cent of those questioned said they were very or quite satisfied with the way that the NHS is run.

Forty percent of New Yorkers questioned in a Siena College Research Institute survey released Tuesday say they have a favorable view of their governor, down 14 points from last month.

Fifty - nine percent of people questioned in the Quinnipiac survey say Paterson doesn't deserve to be elected in 2010, a modest improvement from October, when more than two of out three voters felt the governor didn't deserve a full term.

MyHeritage has collected over 1.2 million kits in 13 months of operation, said Erlich, who noted that «we also have phenotypic surveys with the same questions as the UK Biobank,» an international repository of health data from more than 500,000 participants.

««Don't know» in response to a survey question,» he writes, «often means «Don't want to know,» which is another way of saying, «I don't want to get involved.

«The crucial question is how much ice could be lost in the next 100 to 200 years, and Jonathan's work has not really changed that,» says David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey.

While more than two - thirds of nonacademic organizations consider performance reviews standard practice, almost half the academic institutions questioned in a survey conducted by COSEPUP said they do not officially review their postdocs.

McGregor says that in 2014 the UI, one of the participating universities, was allowed to add two questions to the nearly 200 - question survey: «Do you have any learning disabilities that affect how you read, study, or do your course work?»

«We have no explanation for this,» says Holländer, who adds that the next round of the survey, to be conducted in 3 to 5 years, may ask further questions on the topic.

Phil Cowan from Landcare Research, a state - owned research agency in Palmerston North, said that 73 per cent of people questioned in a recent survey wanted the possums exterminated and 85 per cent agreed with using contraceptive methods to achieve this.

Solutions: Smart talking and media mastery Surveys show that most people want more information about climate science, Schmidt said, so scientists should engage in public forums such as blogs, question - and - answer sessions and public talks, provided they are not simply stacked with angry debaters.

But for the large - scale opinion surveys typically carried out in the developing world — many questions covering broad topics that are designed to identify the differences between communities — «this is exactly the appropriate method for detecting fabrication,» Kuriakose says.

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Do you think eHarmony subscribers have a greater likelihood to be more honest in their profiles because of the extensive survey questions they're required to answer versus users on a site like Match.com where subscribers can say whatever they want in their profiles?

The question asked in the survey said: Do you generally contact one person, communicate with them and go on a date OR are you communicating with multiple people during the same time frame?

The YouGov survey found that 43 per cent of the teachers questioned believed the premium had been effective in improving outcomes for poor pupils, while 19 per cent of respondents said they did not know.

In this paper, Hitt, Trivvit, and Cheng demonstrate across several longitudinal data sets that students who are more non-responsive to survey questions (skipping items or saying «don't know») have significantly lower educational attainment and fare less well in the labor market, even after controlling for a broad set of background characteristics and cognitive measureIn this paper, Hitt, Trivvit, and Cheng demonstrate across several longitudinal data sets that students who are more non-responsive to survey questions (skipping items or saying «don't know») have significantly lower educational attainment and fare less well in the labor market, even after controlling for a broad set of background characteristics and cognitive measurein the labor market, even after controlling for a broad set of background characteristics and cognitive measures.

The survey also questioned Eatwell Guide * food group knowledge of all age groups, with almost a quarter (23 percent) of 5 - 7 year olds say that bananas, roast chicken, broccoli and wholegrain bread belong in the dairy and alternatives food group.

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A 2010 national random survey of teacher educators asked them the same question and got the same result: more than 8 in 10 said differentiated instruction was very or somewhat difficult to implement.

Three - fourths of voters questioned in January said they had heard about the bipartisan law, up from 56 percent who said so in a survey a year earlier.

In this year's survey, as we have done in the past, we asked the following question: «Some people say teachers unions are a stumbling block to school reforIn this year's survey, as we have done in the past, we asked the following question: «Some people say teachers unions are a stumbling block to school reforin the past, we asked the following question: «Some people say teachers unions are a stumbling block to school reform.

In 2008, the team found that 60 % of teachers surveyed said that struggling students were a «top priority» at their schools while just 23 % said the same of «academically advanced» students — even on a question to which teachers could provide multiple answers.

Of the teachers who answered our questions, 24 percent say they're burned out and 32 percent say they wouldn't choose a teaching career again... While not scientific, the survey is still noteworthy in that 4,500 public school teachers participated.