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"There’s just one problem: It’s not clear how effective nudges really are. One recent analysis of a large study of nudging interventions found that, after accounting for the fact that positive results are more likely to get published, the evidence that nudges change the decisions people make in their everyday lives is not particularly strong."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opinion/human-behavior-nudge.html
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That's the kind of subtle irony that raises my spirits:
"It also turns out that people without any scientific training are good at correctly guessing or betting on which studies can’t be replicated based only on their descriptions."