Posted on 10/15/2015 6:15:34 AM PDT by FourPeas
For the past year, the Obama administration has been running an experiment: Is it possible to make policy more effective by using psychology on citizens?
The nickname is “nudging”—the idea that policymakers can change people’s behavior just by presenting choices or information differently. The classic example is requiring people to opt out of being an organ donor, instead of opting in, when they sign up for a driver’s license. Without any change in rules, the small tweak has boosted the number of registered organ donors in many states.
Nudging has gained a lot of high-profile advocates, including behavioral-law guru Cass Sunstein and former budget czar Peter Orszag. Not everyone likes the idea—“the behaviorists are saying that you, consumer, are stupid,” said Bill Shughart, a professor of public choice at Utah State University—but President Obama was intrigued enough that he actually hired Sunstein, a law professor at Harvard who co-wrote the best-known book about the topic, “Nudge.”
The president officially adopted the idea last year when he launched the White House’s Social and Behavioral Science Team (SBST), a cross-agency effort to bring behavioral science research into the policymaking process. Now the team has published its first annual report on this experiment.
The Federal Government has been doing that ever since they launched their war on smoking in the early 1960’s.
Fortunately there are enough of us in this country that can tell the difference between s**t and shinola.
I remember back in the day when we used to call it BRAINWASHING!
How do we nudge Obama out of office?
Beyond Freedom and Dignity…
http://www.enotes.com/topics/beyond-freedom-dignity
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Tactics of totalitarians ALERT!
What is now called ‘nudging” was once, in a simpler world, called lying your *ss off.
But, yes, our Orwellian government now does it all the time with everything.
I’m A Good Old Conservative
I can’t pick up my musket
And defend myself no more
But I ain’t gonna vote for ‘um
Now that is certain sure
And I don’t want no pardon
For what I was and am
I won’t be reconstructed
And I do not give when nudged!
Effective for weak minds. It is just making me angry.
There are enough “public service” announcements to choke a horse.
The takers are the ones they are conditioning. The premise that they are ENTITLED to the money of the working class is the message and that GOVERNMENT alone can protect you.
The Silent Majority is probably no more. It has been replaced by the
MORONIC MASSES.
In their worldview human beings are highly evolved animals, so it naturally follows that they would use techniques derived from animal training to attempt to modify human behavior.
Teacher colleges have been dominated by this philosophy for more than a century.
It’s a reductionist error that can have horrifying consequences if followed to its logical conclusion.
Need to nudge all dem/commies out of the country.
So where’s their “first annual report?”
Count on sheeple being stupid and unobservant. Hide all you can in the fine print. The opt out is just one technique that is used to “force” people into behaviors the keepers require.
“The nickname is “nudging”—the idea that policymakers can change people’s behavior just by presenting choices or information differently. The classic example is requiring people to opt out of being an organ donor, instead of opting in, when they sign up for a driver’s license. Without any change in rules, the small tweak has boosted the number of registered organ donors in many states.”
Agree. Lying and manipulation are the main ideas in the Dem playbook.
I call it out and out in your face agitation or agitprop far lack of a better term.
Agreed
ping
The gentle forms of mind control... quite the fashion in China and other Communist countries.
We must not be fooled by the innocent way this is being introduced...
Psy ops on us from our own government.
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