________________________There are so many complex and troubling issues here which I hope we will see critiqued on this list. At a public health level there may or may not have been some useful nudges. But an I missing something in not seeing the nudge unit addressing social and economic inequalities which we know underpin our deepest public health issues ? Or are they doing work on nudging the super rich and tax dodging businesses into paying their taxes, for example? .
Can we be comfortable with psychological knowledge being used by government for profit?
David Halpern is quoted in the article as saying that the " unit would continue to publish most of its research, so public bodies can learn from its insights." So why not all its research? Waht about transparency of publicly funded data? Why keep some secret unless there are politically or commercially sensitive vested interests at stake?
Annie
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Yes they had a target if reducing alcohol use by Welsh university students. Someone needs to! I wonder if they succeeded.
Richard
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On 5 Feb 2014, at 20:02, David Fryer <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
"The government's behavioural insights team – also known as the nudge unit – is to leave the Cabinet Office and be spun out as a mutual joint venture that will allow it to sell its services globally at a profit. The 16-strong team – seen as a world leader in behavioural insight – was set up in 2010 with a mission to find innovative ways of enabling people to make better choices for themselves and society. . . . "
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/05/government-behaviour-insight-nudge-mutual-nesta-funding?CMP=EMCSOCEML657
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