Their summary csv listing all the studies reviewed is at https://osf.io/ubt9a https://osf.io/ubt9a And boy am I struggling - I am amazed it's even possible to

Their summary csv listing all the studies reviewed is at https://osf.io/ubt9a https://osf.io/ubt9a And boy am I struggling - I am amazed it's even possible to group all of these studies under the same umbrella unless that is "misc". Claiming that how people choose to treat their cancer, portion sizes at restaurants, rural Kenyan maternal health and Dutch childrens vegetable choices are even in the same field seems - incredible. Maybe I am agreeing with the study in a roundabout way. If all of these things are under the heading "nudge" then it is too broad a heading. It's probably impossible to say one way or another that nudging works because you can never unpick all the confounding factors. Did the Dutch children have a popular TV show about vegetables while the Kenya media ran months long articles about unsanitary hospital conditions? With my cynical hat on Nudge is a way for politicians to try something even when the real fix is intractable. I don't oppose "do something positive" - Injust oppose abusing power, violence for political gain, and all the other reasons why we can agree on a nudge in the right direction but cannot agree on a structural fix in the right direction. I guess if they worked then they would solve the problems without structural chnage and so would defeat the forces that benefit from the status quo. so yeah. it does not work. looks like we will have to go back to the old politics and revolt.