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- 23rd Mar 2020
Bright infographics & minimal text make handwashing posters most effective - result from an online experiment
Many governments and health authorities have already created posters and infographics to encourage people to thoroughly wash their hands. We decided to test some of these in order to identify which were most effective.
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- 11th May 2020
Facemasks: would you wear one?
As of late April, 80-90% of people in China, India, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, and Malaysia reported wearing facemasks in public. However, only 13% of Britons reported doing the same - among the lowest of any country surveyed.
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- 19th May 2020
How to wear a facemask - results from an experiment with 4,099 UK adults
We ran an online experiment, involving 4,099 UK adults, to test various ‘how to wear a face mask / covering’ infographics, including ones made by the European CDC, Singapore Ministry of Health, and World Health Organisation.
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- 29th May 2020
Don’t say it makes you “immune” - how you frame coronavirus antibody results matters
We ran an online experiment in April, involving 6,149 UK adults, to investigate how the framing of a positive antibody test result affects the public’s perceived risk and behaviour.
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- 17th Jul 2020
Improving student attendance through timely nudges
In the UK, 90% of teachers report that pupils are doing less or much less work than usual. On average UK pupils have spent just 2.5 hours a day on school work, but a fifth (or 2 million) did no schoolwork or less than an hour a day. School closures…
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- 3rd Nov 2020
Do you understand the guidance? Four findings from an experiment with 3,702 adults in England
Following the announcement that England will enter a second national lockdown, the public will need to familiarise themselves with the new rules coming into force this Thursday. But how well does the public understand the current rules, some of which vary depending on what part of the country people live…
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- 10th Nov 2020
A small number of people account for a large amount of coronavirus risk
Once lockdown ends, how compliant should we expect people to be with the guidance, in terms of limiting their number of risky social contacts? To estimate this, we ran a (pre-lockdown) survey about the social activities of 3,702 adults in England.
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- 25th Nov 2020
People have a good sense of which settings are riskier than others in terms of coronavirus transmission - but underestimate the benefits of ventilation
We know that people do reasonably well when quizzed on the general coronavirus rules in England. But, to date there has been little research on how well people understand the risk of specific settings. So, we tested this in an experiment with 4,769 UK adults - here are our three…
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- 11th Mar 2021
Increasing take up of free childcare to improve outcomes in Greater Manchester
One of the ways HMG encourages parents to put their children in early education is through the free early education entitlement for two-year-olds (also known as the two year old offer), which gives low income parents and parents of children with special educational needs up to 15 hours of free…
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- 9th Apr 2021
Practicalities are the most significant impediments to people getting a COVID vaccine - and the easiest to address
People’s willingness to receive the coronavirus vaccine may not be enough to actually get it. Large intention-action gaps have long been observed in many health behaviours, and it’s likely that some practical barriers will get in the way for many groups. To pre-empt this intention-action gap, we ran an online…