672 research outputs found
“This should be a wake-up call”: How to improve people’s faith in economic statistics
No full textJohnny Runge has used qualitative methods, such as interviews, focus groups and surveys, to explore public perceptions of the economy – and discovered sobering levels of misunderstanding and distrus
The hidden use of statistics
Get PDFThe general public grabs statistics from a variety of not necessarily reliable online sources when making big life decisions from baby names to house moves. Johnny Runge considers how the official stats world should feel about tha
Communicating economic evidence about immigration changes attitudes and policy preferences
Get PDFExisting studies demonstrate that threat perceptions matter for immigration attitudes. However, while these perceptions are potentially sensitive to information about immigrants’ impacts, questions remain about whether inserting such information into public debates changes attitudes and policy preferences—especially on polarizing issues like immigration. Moreover, few studies have considered messages featuring the type of nonphotorealistic visual elements that increasingly appear in media. Using a survey experiment fielded in the United Kingdom, we examined whether evidence about European Union immigrants’ modestly positive economic impacts on the United Kingdom—presented either as text, with visualizations, or as an animated film—changed immigration attitudes and policy preferences. Although visual elements did not have an effect over and above text, all the informational treatments moved attitudes and preferences in positive directions, even among Leave voters. Our study brings together research on immigration public opinion and visual media and has implications for policymaking and journalism practice
sj-docx-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183221142779 - Supplemental material for Communicating Economic Evidence About Immigration Changes Attitudes and Policy Preferences
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183221142779 for Communicating Economic Evidence About Immigration Changes Attitudes and Policy Preferences by William L. Allen, Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, Heather Rolfe and Johnny Runge in International Migration Review</p
Johnny Zee / Songs for Our Daughters / The Feelgood Factor
No full textBand, audience, dancers, photographs, cityscape, etc. John Mostyn, Music Publisher, talking about meeting Johnny and Kendall, and being excited by their mixture of bhangra and reggae music. Intercut with shots of band in changing rooms, Johnny in recording studio, all VO. Johnny Zee talking about his career, and how he composes; his collaboration with Kendall; the fusion of Punjabi and English in the lyrics. Intercut with shots of him playing with his dog, playing keyboards, Kendall, Johnny and Kendall in studio, all VO. Kendall talks about his own patois contribution, and taking his own sound to audiences, maintaining his identity. His VO street scenes, builder’s yard. Band playing in builder’s warehouse. Johnny about his background and the difficulty this caused with his family. Intercut with photos of his parents, the family builder’s yard, Johnny in studio, with his girlfriend, all VO. Mostyn says Johnny will have to get away from his family in order to find his audience. Johnny says he can’t abandon his music. The band in performance. Women talking. Pregnant woman in rocking chair. Lisa Crook says people always ask where she’s from – half Guyanese and half English. Mavis Crook-Massey says she’s much lighter-skinned than her other children. Woman and daughter playing hand-clapping game. Carolyn Ebanks talking about mixed-race children, how she wants to give hers a balance of both cultures, and how she points out to them that images in Africa will be of black people while those in Britain will be of whites. Woman reading in dialect to her daughter. Ebanks talking about the need to find books with black characters, black dolls, etc. Woman and daughter. Crook-Massey talking about the difficulties of replacing her hsuband’s potato diet with rice back in the 1950s. Ebanks on making Grenadan gungo pea soup. Woman and daughter shopping for fruit, confronted by black and white people who all complain about the mixed race child. Crook on being light skinned. Her mother tells a story about two women talking about the pair of them. Crook talking about going to Mexico with a Jamaican friend who was ignored by the local people. Ebanks on not wanting her children to believe they were better because they were lighter skinned. Crook doesn’t want to be categorised. Ebanks’s children; she says whatever choices they make, she’ll be there to support them. Woman and daughter. VO says there is a debate about the cultural value of crime thriller by black writers. Steve Pope, Publisher, the X Press, talks about a new style of crime writing Victor Headley’s Yardie, Donald Gorgon’s Cop Killer, Moss Side Massive. Dramatised sequence from Cop Killer. David Upshal, Critic, suggests these books are pulp fiction. Peter Kalu, Author of Lick Shot, also critical of the literary value of some of the books. Upshal: these books represent a very narrow part of black experience. Lee Pinkerton, Journalist, says no book can represent the whole of the black community, and people want to read about this small portion. Discussion continues with Upshall, Pinkerton and Kalu intercut giving opinions of on the undesirability of repeating stereotypes about black people as gangsters, the books being mainly about criminal activity, and there not being enough other books to balance; the universality of some of the themes in the books; one book offering the political message that black people need to organise in order to resist, having a high ranking policeman character being a good thing. Dramatised sequence from Lick Shot, in which DCI Patterson visits Frankie, a police informer. Kalu believes two major themes of his book are justice and the struggle to maintain moral integrity. Cast. Credits
2 prospectors the letters of Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark
No full text"Pulitzer Prize-winning author of plays such as True West, Fool For Love, and Buried Child, and Academy Award-nominated actor in many films, including The Right Stuff, Sam Shepard is arguably America's finest working dramatist. He has said many times that he will never write a memoir. But he has written intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark. This book gathers nearly 40 years of their correspondence, which provides the most honest and complete record of Shepard's professional and personal lives that he is ever likely to publish. The book is illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters. It makes a perfect companion to Treva Wurmfeld's recent film, Shepard & Dark"-
Opportunities for the development of geometrical reasoning in current textbooks in the UK and Japan
No full textDeveloping a good model of the school geometry curriculum continues to be one of the most important tasks in curricular design in mathematics. This paper reports on an initial analysis of current best-selling textbooks used in lower secondary schools in Japan and the UK (specifically England and Scotland). The analysis indicates that, following the specification of the mathematics curriculum in these countries, Japanese textbooks set out to develop students’ deductive reasoning skills through the explicit teaching of proof in geometry, whereas comparative UK textbooks tend, at this level, to concentrate on finding angles, measurement, drawing, and so on, coupled with a modicum of opportunities for conjecturing and inductive reasoning. The available research suggests that each approach has its own strengths and weaknesses. Finding ways of capitalising on the strengths and mitigating the weaknesses could prove helpful in formulating new curricular models and designing new student textbooks
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No full textN.B.: When citing this work, cite the original article. This is the authors ’ version of the following article: Stina Axelsson, Maria Hjorth, Johnny Ludvigsson and Rosaura Casas, Decreased GAD(65)-specific Th1/Tc1 phenotype in children with Type 1 diabetes treated with GAD-alum., 2012, Diabetic Medicine, (29), 10, 1272-1278. which has been published in final form at
Johnny and David Tate
No full textThis undated photograph shows Johnny and David Tate of Cranberry High School playing a "washtub bass" and guitar. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University
Correspondence to the Atlanta Inquirer from Johnny Parham, circa 1960
No full textThis is a handwritten letter to the Atlanta Inquirer from Johnny Parham. The letter is about a proposed agreement about ceasing the non-violent protest to desegregate schools. Parham describes his apprehensive sentiments about the agreement and its integrity. He is concerned that the movement would be in vain if the agreement was signed. The agreement is a compromise invalidating African Americans' legal entitlement to equal rights. Parham mentions the student movement, and African Americans have moved passed compromises but are in a stage of demanding their equal rights. 2 pages
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