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- Blog
- 10th Sep 2024
Can we use behavioural science to reduce the risk of nuclear weapons?
Our joint project with Chatham House aimed to understand exactly what the ‘behavioural risks’ in our nuclear weapons programmes really are - and what consequences they might pose.
- Report
- 9th Sep 2024
A Blueprint for Better International Collaboration on Evidence
Governments collectively spend trillions on public services. Despite this, surprisingly little is known on what works across most areas of public spending. Alongside this, R&D spending by governments across most areas of spending, with the exception of health and defence, are incredibly low. For the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada,…
- Press release
- 9th Sep 2024
Study reveals $100 billion ‘evidence gap’ in public policy
A new report reveals minimal government investment in public policy evidence, with R&D spending in the UK, Canada, Australia, and the US at under 0.1% of total expenditure in key areas like education, social protection, and public order.
- Working paper
- 22nd Aug 2024
Working Paper No. 007: The UK public is overconfident
A nationally representative survey of 2000 adults found that 81% of people are overconfident in their answers to a series of general knowledge questions - that is to say, they answer incorrectly but believe their response to be right - but there are notable differences between generations.
- Blog
- 12th Aug 2024
Collectivism is out and individualism is in
The UK has witnessed a steep decline in the membership of its political parties over the past few decades. The days are gone where joining a political party is a common life milestone: now just 1% of the electorate are party members.
- Blog
- 8th Aug 2024
What counts as fair and open in gambling? We’ll need to ask the public to find out
When we ask people who gamble, we hear many different ideas of fairness depending on the context. Some describe certain practices as unfair: confusing terms and conditions, adverts that pressure and overwhelm and ‘trap’ people into gambling or spending more than they want to, and the practice of gambling companies suspending…
- Blog
- 6th Aug 2024
Are content controls the answer to helping people curate their online feeds?
To examine how the design of platforms might help - or hinder - people from making informed choices about the content they see, BIT and Ofcom ran two trials.
- Working paper
- 6th Aug 2024
Working Paper No. 006: Understanding gambling spending in Great Britain using payment card data
Historically the gambling market in Britain has been dominated by cash. However, in more recent times debit card payments have become the predominant form of payment in Britain, including in the gambling market.
- Report
- 26th Jul 2024
What do people think are the chances of winning money from a wagering requirement? Supplementary results to the main report
In this report, BIT’s Gambling Policy and Research Unit presents additional evidence wagering requirements (WR)—common restrictions on gambling offers stipulating how many times a player must stake their received bonus funds before they can withdraw anything as their own money—are poorly understood by consumers.
- Report
- 17th Jul 2024
Review of Online Choice Architecture and Vulnerability
Commissioned by Citizens Advice, this report explores how online choices architecture disproportionately harm vulnerable consumers, recommending this architecture and vulnerability should be addressed together to protect consumers.