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Re:Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly... by t_mann on Thursday July 28, 2022 @05:01AM (#32261937)
Default options in forms are the standard example of a nudge, a tax however is definitely not a nudge, the article actually explicitly says so.
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Re:Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly... by vintermann on Thursday July 28, 2022 @05:06AM (#32261976)
In that big meta study that questioned the efficiency of nudges, it was said in the discussion on HN that they excluded default options from the definition of nudges.

Either way, the line seems arbitrary to me, and it's part of why I think they're moving the goalposts.

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Re:Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly... by t_mann on Thursday July 28, 2022 @05:13AM (#32262031)
I don't know what people on HN said, but it's the first example of nudges of you look here (and pretty much anywhere else):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory#Types_of_nudges

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Re:Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly... by vintermann on Thursday July 28, 2022 @05:39AM (#32262261)
The article in question was "No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias". That study apparently counted default choices on forms as "structural interventions" - a term wide enough to usually include immunisation programs and taxes.
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