It’s time to bring more realistic models of human behaviour into economic policy

Re:It’s time to bring more realistic models of human behavio... by m-i-l on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:52AM (#12344694)

When the author says "add QR codes on bills so that consumers can easily extract their consumption data and make better choices", I think they mean "bill" as in a printed or written statement of the money owed for goods or services, rather than "bill" as in US banknote.

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Re:It’s time to bring more realistic models of human behavio... by notahacker on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:50PM (#12346400)

To be honest, it's still a bit of a WTF in this particular article given that there's plenty of behavioural evidence that (i) people really don't like scanning receipts into tracking systems, even when they're being paid to do so by getting their expenses refunded (ii) most consumers don't know or care what a QR code is

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Re:It’s time to bring more realistic models of human behavio... by Brakenshire on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:04PM (#12345278)

Yes, bill means receipt in British English.

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Re:It’s time to bring more realistic models of human behavio... by _9MOTHER9HORSE on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:17PM (#12346051)

It doesn't so much mean receipt as "invoice" (e.g. for taxes or utilities) or "check" (e.g. in a restaurant)

In most restaurants you would ask for the bill, then when you pay, you will receive a separate receipt.

The receipt is proof of payment.

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Re:It’s time to bring more realistic models of human behavio... by Brakenshire on Thursday August 25, 2016 @07:45PM (#12363337)

Yes, that's better put.

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