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This motivated him and his friends to conduct a survey more than a month ago to gauge interest in a delivery service. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, impelling them to move forward with plans...
...Resource Efficiency Prorgram (REP) survey conducted in 2003 found that 70 percent of undergraduates would support a $25 fee to switch to renewable energy sources...
...least somewhat warmer to these ideas. Sadly, studies of this kind provide very little compelling evidence that these programs are effective, even when adolescents are so convinced as to make a virginity pledge. When you control for the number of sexual partners the students had had in the survey, pledgers are in fact more likely on a per partner basis to have contracted a sexually transmitted disease, gotten pregnant and generally suffered all the problems that the Heritage Foundation would have one believe that abstinent teens are immune to. What’s more, the number of partners someone...
...World Values Survey has also found increasingly tolerant attitudes among Americans. Between its first global survey in 1981 and the 1990 survey, acceptance of euthanasia, for instance, rose markedly, as it did between the 1990 and 1997 surveys. Over the same period, more Americans came to approve of single motherhood. And at the same time, approval of homosexuality rapidly increased. (Significantly, a New York Times/CBS News poll this year found that 55 percent of Americans favor equal partnership rights for same-sex couples—either same-sex marriage or civil unions...
...folks at the World Values Survey added some questions about attitudes toward the mysterious workings of the invisible hand. Between 1990 and 1997 a growing number of Americans came to find the idea that “wealth can grow so there’s enough for everybody” more to their liking than the notion that “people can only get rich at each other’s expense.” And in 1997, Americans were more likely than they had been in 1990 to see competition as essentially “good?...