Sentences with phrase «whether public perception»

We were curious as to whether public perception had actually changed, so once again we consulted our historical database to determine the average public betting percentage on the over by year.

Although the only picks we fully endorse are our Best Bets, sharp money indicators like reverse line movement help offer insight into which teams are offering value and whether public perception is creating artificial line value.

, sharp money indicators like reverse line movement help offer insight into which teams are offering value and whether public perception is creating artificial line value.

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At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

Experts pointed to women including Democratic presidential front - runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, one of the first female combat veterans in Congress, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who chaired the Senate Foreign Intelligence Committee as people who have changed public perception on whether women can be tough on terrorism in particular.

«The scientists should just tell us what they know and not worry too much about whether there's too much gloom and doom in it,» says Dan Kahan, a Yale law and psychology professor who leads the Cultural Cognition Project, studying public perceptions of risk.

Contrary to public perception, the number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found, raising the question of whether federal policies affecting immigrants should be significantly altered.

The question concerning whether and to what extent public perception deviates from scientific estimations of health risks is of particular interest for the work of the BfR, as the Institute can then counteract false estimations or misunderstandings with communicative measures.

But the companies apparently never commercialized the variety, Meyer says — whether because of unfriendly public perceptions, regulatory hurdles, or simple economics.

Union pronouncements about the success or failure of the process, however, and unions» work with states and districts and outside partners on the standards, do influence the materials and supports that are being provided to teachers, and also help shape media and public perceptions of the initiative, and in theory could shape lawmakers» positions on whether to continue, pause, or reengineer the effort.

New research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lynch School of Education at Boston College, and Medford Public Schools indicates that teens» perceptions of the job market — whether or not they believe that jobs are scarce, or that their education will help them obtain a job — can significantly affect their decision to remain engaged in school.

Less attention has been paid to whether the rigor of state standards matters for public perceptions of the quality of the schools in their states and local communities.

Among advisers, opinions are split as to whether advisers who don't exclusively offer fee - for - service should be holding themselves out as «fee - only» advisers, given the clear incongruence with public perception.

This article points to the public perception of Nintendo's home consoles, whether or not it is factually true.

Among the general public, perceptions of whether and how much climate change is affecting their local community are tied to political party and ideology.

Tell me, too, how someone who sees things as you do — all built into Bayesianism; no need to address whether the problem is different priors or different sources of information relevant to truth - seeking likelihood ratios vs. a form of biased perception that opportunisitcally bends whatever evidence is presented to fit a preconception; no need apparently either for empirical study on any of this — can straighten out someone who says the key to dispelling public conflict over climate change is just to disseminate study findings on scientific consensus.

There's also rising public doubt and growing political polarization about what scientists have to say on the environment, and a widespread perception that there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is happening.

Perception of Scientists & Evidence Changing But back to the issue of growing scientific evidence of warming: The percentage of people who think most scientists think climate change is happening dropped 13 point to 34 %, while 40 % of the American public believes there is «a lot of disagreement» among scientists about whether warming is happening or not.

Consequently, for a judge not to allow defense voir dire / cross examination questioning of a prosecution witness before a damning exhibit is allowed into evidence, presents not only a Due Process issue but also a possible perception of pro-prosecutorial bias of the judge, whether or not that bias exists, at least in the eyes of laypeople watching the trial, when a critical element of a sufficiently functioning judicial system is for the public to perceive judges as following their oaths of office.

Whether these perceptions are accurate or not, they directly speak to the public confidence in the justice system, and directly affects the ability of Toronto Police Services to do their jobs.

«This distorting influence affected not only the participants» perception of the degree of consensus, but also their judgments of whether there was sufficient consensus to use it to guide public policy,» Koehler concluded.

Tom Goldstein links to the official White House Web site, which provides the following text of President Bush's public statement about Justice O» Connor's resignation (and here's a link to the video)-- I've bolded the president's olive - branchy sentence about the Senate, though I agree with Volokh Conspirator Todd Zywicki that «the same nasty fight is going to occur regardless of who is nominated, and be just as nasty and expensive, regardless of who is nominated and the particular perception of whether he or she is moderate or conservative.»

One must ponder whether enhancing the public's perception of independence is required and whether it will outweigh the many costs associated with the dissolution of the Tribunal.

Whether or not judges are influenced by campaign contributions, there is a significant public perception that they are.

Adherence to procedural fairness principles can have perhaps the greatest impact on the perceptions of offenders, the community, and those who come into contact with the justice system.The articles below focus on how and whether procedural fairness affects public opinion.

Threaded through many of the comments to that post is the perception that women lawyers remain excluded from public discussions on the future of legal practice, whether taking place online or in conference settings.