Episode 87: The Distracting Nature of Nudges
Two Psychologists Four Beers
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Is It a Systemic Solution or an Individual Focus Solution?
Am says the idea of a nudge that they don't say explicitly is that nudges are non coercive. So for example, if you default people to be organ donors, it's easy to op out. And then that default is actually quite powerful. Maybe you put them in a situation they don't like, fair enough. But the goal is supposed to be that if you don't like you can switch out. Am: You're never going to coerce somebody into an outcome that they really object to. They kind of elied because i think that runs up against some of the objections that people might have to these kind of s frame systemic interventions.
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