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- 10th Oct 2018
Data sharing and the importance of choice architecture in healthcare: new results
GDPR has made us all more aware of how our personal data is shared and collected. But how much do we understand the data sharing choices presented to us? It’s a question especially relevant in the context of the UK National Health Service, which collects and analyses a range of…
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- 15th Aug 2018
Central banking: when communication is the policy
Sometimes, the explanation is the policy. — Janet Yellen, Chair of the Federal Reserve 2014-2018 The psychological and behavioural economics literatures have had a transformative impact on how we understand people’s financial and personal decision-making. Studies have shown that more information isn’t always better, that defaulting people into saving can…
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- 21st Mar 2018
The impact of improved transparency of foreign money transfers for consumers and SMEs
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- Blog
- 29th Jun 2017
Hiring, honeybees and human decision-making
Dozens of studies have shown that the choices we make over what we eat, how we save, and even how we vote can be affected by how those choices are presented: their ‘choice architecture’. Research has found, for example, that the order of candidates’ names on a ballot sheet can…
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- 17th Feb 2016
Would you hire on the toss of a coin?
Here’s a reasonable question: why put multiple people on a task when you can just get one really smart person to do all the work? Put simply, because the group’s probably going to do a better job. The history behind the science One hundred years ago, British statistician Francis Galton…