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>Or how exactly does nudging look like in practice? If you want people to take the stairs you might make the elevator stay at the top floors so that people al
by yourusername 4y ago
>Or how exactly does nudging look like in practice?
If you want people to take the stairs you might make the elevator stay at the top floors so that people always have to press the call elevator button, they might choose to walk up instead of waiting.
If you want people to eat less animal based proteins you can make vegan options the default for catering/meal options with meat only available as a option you can request. Some people will take whatever is the default.
You want more organ donations you make being a organ donor the default with a option to opt-out.
The goal is to make the desired option the easiest way out so most people will avoid the cognitive work of doing what they would actually prefer if they thought about it.
- AmericanChopper 4y agoTurning the option that most people want into the hardest/most tedious/most onerous option for them to select is a great way to foster contempt for your system.
- yourusername 4y agoI think nudges are supposed to be subtle enough that you don't notice them. And probably for every not so subtle manipulation we notice there are 5 we don't notice.
- AmericanChopper 4y agoI’m sure that’s what professional nudgers like to think, but I certainly feel like I see them all over the place.
- cobbzilla 4y agoSome are meant to be noticed: mandated calorie counts on food menus (nudge to health eating), or dire warnings on cigarette packs (nudge to quit smoking). Neither of these have had any measurable impact on their goals; I welcome evidence to the contrary.
- BoxOfRain 4y agoAnecdotally I was still smoking when they brought in mandated gore on British tobacco pouches, very quickly people were joking like 'I got the bloke with a hole in his side, just need the curious baby with a cigarette and I've got the lot' etc. Those who were really bothered by it just got a baccy tin or if they smoked straights, a cigarette case. What led me to quit wasn't any 'nudging' by the government but simply that vaping is a lot more convenient than smoking and lacked the finger-wagging inherent in other nicotine replacement approaches, and once I was only vaping I could turn down the nicotine over the course of six months or so to spare the worst of the grimness of quitting.