The disastrous mistakes of the 1950s [ 16, 18, 23, 25, 27] show how rapidly opinions can shift, destroying the chance of obtaining reliable evidence.
The Scottish independence poll last year showed just how rapidly public opinion can shift if it feels patronised or threatened.
(It's a sign of how rapidly Washington opinion has moved that, writing only four years ago, even Wurmser considered it inadvisable for the United States "to go to war solo, to liberate and occupy an Arab capital," and recommended the empowerment of the Iraqi National Congress to overthrow Saddam).
And there is disagreement among strategists about just how rapidly public opinion has shifted in the voting groups that count most in a closely contested election, such as Latinos and older women.
Such attention is becoming increasingly common as interactive technologies enable consumers to rapidly convey opinions to marketers.
Taking also into account the very rapidly changing opinions related to the environmental behaviour of the whole biofuels supply chain, it becomes very clear that the parameters in the sector are continuously changing.
As 2007 passed, his popularity rating sank rapidly in the opinion polls.
When a Tokyo taxi driver is jailed after hitting and killing a woman with his cab, public opinion rapidly turns against his family.
Even as attitudes toward gay marriage and gender roles have rapidly liberalized, abortion opinion has been remarkably stable since the early nineteen-seventies.
At a time when his friends were rapidly disappearing – one opinion poll had his approval rating fall from 68% before the World Cup to, perhaps unsurprisingly, 20% after their elimination – one old mate gave him a call.
