January 2025 update
Posts and other update to January 2025
Posts since my last update (back in July)….
The illusion of evidence-based nudges: The evidence from nudge trials doesn’t affect whether the nudge is adopted.
Subject notes on behavioural economics: My teaching notes for my undergraduate behavioural economics class.
A comment on the manifesto for behavioural science: I pull apart three proposals from Michael Hallsworth’s A manifesto for applying behavioural science.
The human benchmark is typically unimpressive: It often doesn’t take much to beat the human.
What we learn when we test everything: My take on megastudies. You can watch a video of the talk this post was developed for here.
Human-AI collaboration: is it better when the human is asleep at the wheel?: Some people are concerned we don’t pay attention when we have a competent AI. I argue that might be a good thing.
Books I read in 2024: My reading for the past year, noting a couple of favourites.
As always, comments and feedback are welcome.
In future, I plan to send some full posts via this newsletter rather than the sporadic link updates I do now. My former source of most short-term traffic - Twitter (X) - delivers a small fraction of the views it used to, so I’m going to be more direct in getting these posts out there.
Cheers
Jason