http://fakeologist.com/blog/2020/12/02/ ... ghts-team/
the BIT have a youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyxD6M ... SdX9DkEVOQ
which has a 5-part Build Back Better series looking at work, education, transport and, naturally, 'diversity' issues
e.g. sustainable transport in a post-covid world
August 5 2020
It goes without saying that the Spring shutdowns provided ample data for analysis.... a unique opportunity
The BIT or "nudge unit" spend a lot of time carrying out surveys on which to assess how people are conforming or obeying threats from the government whom they have advised to ramp up fear in the first place. e.g.The nationwide lockdown caused by COVID-19 has disrupted travel behaviours to an unprecedented extent. As the UK emerges from lockdown, there is a unique window of opportunity to develop policy and interventions harnessing the disruption and turning it into long-lasting changes to the way, and the amount, we travel.
Our second webinar of the Build Back Better series gathers experts from policy, research and advocacy to explore how we can make the change stick, whether the focus should be on reducing travel vs shifting people to greener modes of transport, and what the responsibility of government, businesses and individuals is.
https://www.bi.team/blogs/a-small-numbe ... irus-risk/
10th Nov 2020
A small number of people account for a large amount of coronavirus risk
Results from a survey of 3,702 English adults
Who are these 'super spreaders'?
i.e. anyone going about their normal life is a 'potential superspreader' and anyone who isolates from society is a [good] complier. How dystopian is this?Of our sample of 3,702 adults, most said they had been keeping to themselves: in the past 7 days, 75% had either met no-one or only 1-2 people outside their household / support bubble (while also taking safety precautions like meeting outdoors and/or wearing masks). We classified these people as ‘strong compliers’ – they accounted for only 1% of the total transmission risk among all respondents.
Conversely, we classified a small minority (8%) as ‘potential superspreaders’. These were people who met 3 or more people, typically without safety precautions (e.g. long meeting indoors, no masks, not keeping distance). This group accounted for 60% of the total transmission risk.
https://www.bi.team/blogs/covid-19-how- ... -epidemic/
24th Feb 2020
Covid-19: how do we encourage the right behaviours during an epidemic?
where the nudgers were already contemplating vaccine hesitancy less than two weeks after a pandemic was characterised, as if they knew the script into 2021.
or in late June....when the BIT didn't bother with their own surveying prowess but went straight to McKinsey to learn, no doubt with delight that
https://www.bi.team/blogs/life-after-lo ... -recovery/
94% of us think that it will be at least another 2 months until things return to normal.
"at least"
Blog 29th Jun 2020
Life after lockdown: A strong & sustainable economic recovery
https://www.bi.team/blogs/life-after-lo ... -recovery/
By this time, Klaus Schwab had already said that returning "To Normal" the "old ways" was FICTION.
lucky people who have all this excess income they can't spend.Covid-19 has meant that many people have cut spending and built up savings for the first time. Right now, as people return to work and get back to their normal lives we have a timely moment to turn this into a savings habit...how can we promote saving and spending at the same time? The key to bringing them into harmony could be the clever usage of open banking data and behavioural science: Based on the customers’ current level of savings and changes in income and spending during lockdown, banks and fintechs could identify those who can and should save..
The examples were not deliberately created ones, unlike zee corvid cryzees psy-op.The idea of a crisis as a reset opportunity is not a new one, and there is no shortage of historic examples where the hope for positive change remained unfulfilled (see the current BBC Radio 4 Rethink series). When previous economic shocks hit us our understanding of how behavioural science can help design better public policy was still in its infancy. Today however we have the knowledge and evidence to truly take advantage of behavioural insights for the very first time and bring them right into our economic policy making processes.Now is the time to discover which role behavioural science has to play in building back better.