But experts who are trotted out on television can move public opinion by more than 3 percentage points, because they seem to be reliable or impartial authorities.
Voice 370, an international next-of-kin support group, also reiterated its suspicion over the Malaysian government's handling of the jet's disappearance last year, and called for any potential MH370 debris to be analysed by impartial authorities.
Absent a new and impartial electoral authority, the opposition's supporters may conclude that the electoral road to power is closed to them.
Second, there is no impartial judicial authority to make the crucial determination of violation and therefore guilt.
Make sure it's from an impartial diamond grading authority (e.g. Gemological Institute of America, Jewellers Association of Australia) Make sure it's from an impartial diamond grading authority (e.g. Gemological Institute of America, Jewellers Association of Australia) or an independent appraiser who is affiliated with a professional organization (like the American Society of Appraisers).
Last month, Wandsworth's planning chairman Sarah McDermott said: "Given the very public announcements of support from those in very senior positions at Merton, I'm afraid we have no confidence in its ability to fulfill its obligations as an impartial and objective planning authority".
Should legal authorities be impartial, trained and experienced?
Those in the opposition who called for abstention in past elections (claiming that the electoral authority was not impartial) have this time called on their supporters to vote, whereas in the chavista camp, there are signs of apathy.
Humanitarian actors also claim knowledge from decades of organisational experience in the sector, while still preserving the ethics of impartial care that keep moral authority on its feet.
Students don't want a series of appeals to their professor's authority, but an impartial treatment of the issues in question.
A restructured postal system would give the Postal Regulatory Commission, an independent and impartial body of experts, the authority to define the truly public interests which must be protected.
