In Britain, for example, opinion polling suggests that nearly two thirds of the population think that the kind of surveillance revealed by Snowden is basically OK.
"The central limit theorem justifies the statistical models used in many disciplines," says Johnson. "For example, opinion polls average individual preferences and, if the country is sampled correctly, these preferences are independent of each other.
(It also happens to be an incredible time capsule from a moment in pop history, when, for example, opinion was divided about whether Nirvana were any good; some people, Wurtzel writes, found them "loud and unlistenable," while others were celebrating, prematurely, Kurt and Courtney's "domestic bliss").
Figure 3 illustrates an example where the opinion about a proposition x from a binary state space with the value ω x = (0.7, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5) [7]. Figure 3 Opinion triangle with example opinion.
The process considers the constructs of planning, engaging appropriate individuals (for example, opinion leaders), executing the implementation, and reflecting and evaluating.
The third influence was interpersonal influence (for example, opinion leaders, champions, facilitators), and the fourth was organisational antecedents for innovation (for example past experience with information technology projects, leadership and management capacity, effective data capture systems, slack resources).
For example, opinions seemed particularly weak on the less salient and 'hard' issue of education, where it was also difficult for interviewees to assess whether opposition parties had 'done a good job'.
For example, the opinion surveys they rely on suggest that, on many issues, people of different incomes share similar opinions.
Imagine, for example, expert opinion about the coming decade as delivered on Sept. 10, 2001.
An Op-Ed column, like Rich's or Dowd's, for example, contains "opinion," according to a reader's guide on nytimes.com.
With a let's-put-out-a-newspaper attitude — for example, the Opinion section of The Times posted to Twitter: "Readers, don't fret.
