News tagged with poll
More drivers texting at wheel, despite state bans
(AP) -- For all the criticism and new legal bans, texting by drivers just keeps increasing, especially among younger motorists.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Hypothetically tweaking: Research shows questions can influence behavior, promote bias
Hypothetically speaking, if someone told you that a hypothetical question could influence your judgments or behaviour, would you believe them?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Hypothetical questions can influence behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the election cycle now underway, many Americans will be responding to political polls about who they support in the races for president and other offices. But can the poll questions themselves influence ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Support for Massachusetts landmark health reform law rises in 2011
A new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe finds 63% of Massachusetts residents support the health care reform legislation enacted in 2006, 21% oppose it while 6% are not sure and 9% have not heard ...
Jun 06, 2011 |
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Some people's climate beliefs shift with weather
Social scientists are struggling with a perplexing earth-science question: as the power of evidence showing manmade global warming is rising, why do opinion polls suggest public belief in the findings is wavering? Part of ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Fewer Americans worry about climate change: poll
The number of Americans who are worried about global warming has fallen to nearly the historic low reached in 1998, a poll released Monday showed.
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Political polls changing as cell phones proliferate and land lines disappear
Political polling in the U.S. is undergoing significant changes because of the growing popularity of cell phones and the diminishing number of Americans with traditional land lines, says Brian F. Schaffner, a political scientist ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2010 |
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Americans rank jobs, research as priorities for candidates to address
A majority of Americans (58%) said they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports increased federal spending on job creation, in a national poll commissioned by Research!America. In addition, support for expanded ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 13, 2010 |
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New Data Support Use Of Instant Run-Off Voting
(PhysOrg.com) -- New data collected as part of a North Carolina State University study during the 2009 municipal election in Hendersonville, N.C., show that voters prefer instant run-off voting (IRV) to traditional voting ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Climate change not man-made, say majority of Britons: poll
Less than half of Britons believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to a poll carried out for The Times newspaper and published on Saturday.
Nov 15, 2009 |
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Golden State: Yes, No or Maybe?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dan Schnur, director of the College's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, analyzes the findings from the first of six USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences/Los Angeles Times statewide ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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German officials to probe Twitter election leaks
German election officials Sunday said they would investigate the appearance of broadly accurate exit poll results on the Twitter microblogging site before voting had ended.
Sep 27, 2009 |
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Survey: Ask permission to use newborn data, parents say
More than three-quarters of parents would be willing to permit the use of their children's newborn screening samples for research purposes if their permission were obtained beforehand, a University of Michigan survey shows.
Jul 15, 2009 |
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New poll provides snapshot of New Yorkers' views
(PhysOrg.com) -- New York state residents are concerned about the obesity epidemic -- but only 24 percent support a junk food tax, and 39 percent support banning TV ads for junk food.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Presidential primary 2008 polls: What went wrong
University of Michigan survey experts working with the American Association for Public Opinion Research have identified several reasons polls picked the wrong winners in the 2008 Presidential Primary.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light. Pollutants, the elements of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution. The Blacksmith Institute issues an annual list of the world's worst polluted places. In the 2007 issues the ten top nominees are located in Azerbaijan, China, India, Peru, Russia, Ukraine and Zambia.
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