#Nudging

[bobauthorman]

"So, what's it liked being constantly shipped with someone? Not so fun when it's happening to you, is it?"

"I'll have you know that my bickering with Tiger is purely antagonistic, and is in no way meant to be seen in a romantic manner."

"Suuuuure."

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #9217

  Nudging those you love to take care of themselves. – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

[unwelcome-ozian]

Behavioural scientist Dr David Halpern heads up Number 10’s ‘Nudge Unit’, the world’s first government institution that uses behavioural economics to examine and influence human behaviour, to ‘nudge’ us into making better decisions. Seemingly small and subtle solutions have led to huge improvements across tax, healthcare, pensions, employment, crime reduction, energy conservation and economic growth.

Nudging

[sidras-tak]

Accessibility takes too goddamn fucking long.

My brother was paralyzed in October 2023. We got him home from the hospital (in Texas, when we live in Iowa) in a clunky old hospital chair. He hated it. He was scared and angry and in pain and his life had just changed forever and he couldn’t do anything for himself in that wheelchair. His first goal (aside from learning how to transfer) was to get a wheelchair. My family was lucky enough to afford one so we thought it would be easy enough. Nope.

We couldn’t buy him a wheelchair. He needed a prescription. For a wheelchair. A doctor had to examine him and declare him in need of a wheelchair. It wasn’t good enough that he had scans and tests showing tumors cutting off his spinal cord. He needed his primary care doctor to examine him during a physical and write a prescription. He was making 2-4 transfers a day, tops. He had no energy to get to a doctor. Home health was in and out every day. He had no time to get to a doctor. He didn’t get a prescription for almost a month. Then it had to go through insurance.

We asked if we could skip insurance and just buy a wheelchair for him. Nope. They wouldn’t sell us one, not even at full sticker price. It needed to be approved by Medicare. We ordered a wheelchair, a nice one, a good shade of green, sporty, small. It would let him move around the house. He would be able to cook, to reach drawers and get stuff from the fridge and brush his teeth and put his contacts in at a sink. We were told it would take awhile, maybe two months. Silently we all hoped he would be around to see two more months.

He went on hospice care on a Saturday in March. On Monday, I was calling his friends to come see him before he died. I got a call on his phone. It was the wheelchair company. They were about to order his wheelchair, she said, but there was an issue with insurance— had he stopped being covered by Medicare? Well, yes. When he started hospice care, he got kicked off Medicare. The very nice woman I talked to told me to call her if he resumed Medicare coverage so she could order his wheelchair. He died less than 12 hours later.

We ordered that chair for him in early December. Medicare didn’t approve the order until March. He was dead before they got around to it. He wanted that fucking wheelchair so badly. The only reason he had any semblance of independence and any quality of life for the last five months of his life was because the wheelchair company lent him an old beater chair, a very used model of the chair he ordered. If I could go back and change one thing about his end-of-life, I would get him his dream wheelchair. He told me again and again he couldn’t wait to get it, so that he could feel like a person again. He made the best of what he had with that old beater chair, but it still makes me mad to this day. He was paralyzed. He needed a chair that afforded him dignity. We had the money for it. And yet, we were left waiting for five months, for a chair that wouldn’t even get ordered until the day he died.

[blog-aventin-de]

Nudging · Strategie zur Verhaltensänderung

Nudging · Strategie zur Verhaltensänderung · Methode · Wissen

Nudging, auf Deutsch »Anstoßen« oder »Schubsen«, ist eine neuzeitliche Strategie zur Verhaltensänderung. Die Menschen sollen dabei subtil dazu bewegt werden, bestimmte Entscheidungen zu treffen, ohne dabei überhaupt an Zwang oder Verbote zu denken. Der Begriff wurde maßgeblich durch Richard Thaler und Cass Sunstein geprägt: »Nudge - wie man kluge Entscheidungen anstößt«. Prinzipien: Nudging bedeutet, dass Menschen zu besseren Entscheidungen geführt werden sollen, ohne ihre Entscheidungsfreiheit einzuschränken. Dies kann durch subtile Hinweise oder Veränderungen in der Umgebung geschehen, die bestimmte Verhaltensweisen fördern. Beispiele hierfür sind zum Beispiel das Platzieren von gesunden Lebensmitteln in Griffnähe in einer Kantine oder das Anbringen von Schildern auf Rasenflächen, um die Sauberkeit in Städten zu verbessern. Anwendungen: Nudging kann so beispielsweise in verschiedenen Bereichen angewendet werden: - Ernährung: Gesunde Lebensmittel werden in Buffets prominenter platziert als ungesunde Optionen. - Umwelt: Energieetiketten informieren Verbraucher über den Energieverbrauch von Geräten, um umweltfreundlichere Entscheidungen zu fördern. - Gesundheit: Erinnerungen an Impfungen oder Vorsorgeuntersuchungen werden geschickt, um die Teilnahme an Gesundheitsprogrammen zu erhöhen. - Datenschutz: Voreinstellungen für den Datenschutz (Privacy by Default) sind so gestaltet, dass sie den Schutz der Privatsphäre maximieren. Kritik: Trotz positiver Absichten gibt es auch Kritik am Nudging. Kritiker argumentieren, dass es eine Form der Bevormundung darstelle und die Entscheidungsfreiheit der Menschen eingeschränkt sein könnte. Propaganda aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft ist ja grundsätzlich darauf aus, die manipulative Kommunikation zu steigern, nur um ihre Interessen besser vermarkten zu können. Zudem wird diskutiert, wer entscheidet denn, was die »richtige« Entscheidung ist, und ob diese Eingriffe auch immer im besten Interesse der Betroffenen sind. Und wenn die Propaganda zuviel des Guten wird, das weiß ja jeder aus der Medizin, dass eine Überdosis keine Heilung bringt, sondern nur zur Verschlimmerung des Übels führt. Ethische Prinzipien: Transparenz und die Möglichkeit, sich gegen die Nudges zu entscheiden, sind daher wichtige ethische Prinzipien, die immer auch beachtet werden sollten. Und eines sollte man dabei nicht vergessen: Durch zuviel Nudging auf allen Wellen, Sendern und Social-Media geht vor allem das Vertrauen und die Glaubwürdigkeit verloren. Zusammengefasst ist Nudging eine Methode, die darauf abzielt, das Verhalten von Menschen (positiv negativ oder divers) zu beeinflussen, indem ihre Entscheidungsumgebung so gestaltet wird, dass sie nur bestimmte Entscheidungen treffen, ohne dass sie sich dazu gezwungen fühlen und ohne dass alles letztendlich in eine Art »Volkserziehung« ausartet. Nudging · Strategie zur Verhaltensänderung · Methode · Wissen Read the full article

[deardearestbrands]

#NationalConferenceOfStateLegislatures

[ash-and-starlight]

the black mold told me to draw this

[hollis-art]

they can be best friends. they can be lovers. whatever they are, i am rooting for them

[my-life-fm]

hören: https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/podcast/231201-Coronapolitik-ohne-rechtliche-Grundlage-NDS.mp3

[sorreltail]

my favourite thing about every warrior cats fan who is the number one stan of some random unimportant background character is that almost without fail they will be convinced that their guy has right of succession. they’ll have a whole au where secretly their fave character is the main character of warriors holding the whole story together and it will be convincing as HELL and you’ll go fuck….. smallear should have been the one to save thunderclan you’re right….. I eat it up every time

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

[maureenbol]

Nudging: hoe trek je mensen over de streep?

Met nudging beïnvloed je het gedrag van mensen. Je geeft ze op subtiele wijze een duwtje in de goede richting. Zo trek je mensen over de streep om te doen wat jij wil dat zij doen.

Met nudging beïnvloed je het gedrag van mensen. Je geeft ze op subtiele wijze een duwtje in de goede richting. Zo trek je mensen over de streep om te doen wat jij wil dat zij doen. In de natuur kom je nudging overal tegen. Al die kleurige bloemen in de lente en de zomer zijn niet alleen mooi om mooi te zijn. Hun kleuren trekken insecten aan. En dan hebben ze ook nog zo’n heerlijke, zoete geur.…

[city-of-longevity]

Ageing does not begin when a population becomes old.

The city of longevity is about influencing behaviors in everyday gestures, along the course of life, not when we get old. Has it not become an everyday act for millions of people to order food at home with a delivery app? And what influence does that order have on our health and our lifelong risk of obesity? Can calorie labels on food delivery apps influence lower-calorie orders and help sustain healthier lifestyles? Sure they can.

[mreomys]

Updated ref and headcanons of my main designs (Dandy might be changed cuz I don't really like his)

For comparison, here's the old one I did months before (They changed so much omg)

[pepperpepi]

ii but after it ends they go into real society and need actual names