Nothing to do with me, say the covid nudgers
THE state’s reliance on behavioural science strategies – ‘nudges’ – to facilitate the public’s compliance with covid restrictions has been widely documented. The many psychologists and behavioural scientists advising the government during the covid event (such as those in the Sage subgroup, SPI-B, and the Behavioural Insight Team, BIT) have, reasonably, been assumed to hold a significant degree […]