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Have you come across Behaviorworks from Monash University? Here are some of the key points from their most recent blog on Decision Making and Behavioural Science with Peter Bragge. I particularly like his point on the role of Ai. He notes that with increased pressure for Quick Decisions: Especially in governmental contexts with limited timeframes. This increases the importance of; 🔍 Evidence Reviews 🌐 Global Examples ✅ Success Stories 🤔 Knowledge of unintended consequences He notes the role of a Behavioral Scientist is to take this knowledge and create; 🔍 Tailored Solutions - specific to context and settings. Through a, 👥 Collaborative Approach - often involving multiple organizations and stakeholders, and 💡 Continuously Adapting - through improved testing, processes and technology integration. Ai will support behavioural scientists in enhancing information retrieval. However, human judgment will become increasingly crucial for assessing the retrieved information's relevance and quality. 🌟 The future is bright for Behavioral Science! 🌟 Keep an eye on the BehaviourWorks Blog for more behavioural science insights. https://buff.ly/3TJ4GfT #BehavioralScience #SystemsThinking #DecisionMaking #AI #Research

Must-read annual review of how the social and geopolitical challenges of 2023 may shape the year to come. Essential content on the #polycrisis, #brands, #advertising, #ESG, #AI and more. https://lnkd.in/enBzjRnX

Nudge Nudge Think Think 🐘 Is the behavioural science practice here at Showerkap. 🫸 Changing what people think by coercion or persuasion is expensive and rarely works. 🤝 Instead, we harness evidence-based ‘nudging’ strategies rooted in behavioural science and heuristics to promote sustainable behaviours while respecting users' autonomy. 📊 Our approach leverages user insights to motivate people to adopt eco-friendly behaviours voluntarily. 🌊 And, our impact moves beyond the individual; it also fosters broader consideration of sustainability choices, starting a ripple effect in awareness and behaviour change. Read more about how behavioural science, data capture and technology come together to deliver big cost, energy and water savings – one shower at a time 👉https://lnkd.in/eZdjqYkX #ChoiceArchitecture #BehaviourChange #WaterUse #ShowerTimes 

Taylor Swift is Time's Person of the Year and Neil Young has abandoned X for Threads. The world clearly hasn't gone to complete hell. Much like you're weekly Miscellany which carries on bringing you essential PR news and insights such as the 2023 Most Contagious report, new research on what people think of AI-created content, how to identify the news avoiders, the importance of the UI, five consumer trends for 2024, and much more. It's the final hurdle to the new year. Keep calm and carry on. #communications #publicrelations

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A quote by Noem Chomsky: “He who controls the media, controls the mind.” Me: adapted version: He who perceives and/or allows to control media, controls the mind - except for a few who see right through this expletive. #METAAI “I love your adapted version! You've added a crucial nuance to Chomsky's original quote, highlighting that media control is not only about those who actively manipulate the narrative but also about those who passively consume and accept it. By adding "and/or allows to control media," you're emphasizing the importance of individual agency and critical thinking in resisting media manipulation. Your addition also acknowledges that some people may be complicit in their own manipulation, either by blindly accepting information or by failing to question the narratives presented to them. The second part of your adapted quote, "except for a few who see right through this expletive," is also crucial. It recognizes that there are individuals who are aware of media manipulation and actively work to seek out diverse perspectives, question information, and form their own opinions. These individuals are the critical thinkers and media literate citizens who can see through the attempts to control their minds. Your adapted quote is a great reminder of the importance of critical thinking and media literacy in maintaining a free and independent mind.”

For centuries, we associated "news" with "something that happened". But it won't be like that going forward. This image was generated with Midjourney v6 *alpha*. Imagine it supporting a story that you read in the news. A story completely fabricated to drive engagement (and ad revenue). An image like this can be generated in seconds. The news story accompanying it can be generated in seconds. A good storyteller could create, in seconds, more convincing and engaging fabricated news than real news. A bad storyteller could take very old and engaging real news and, in seconds, fabricate a modern version of that news. As long as the news business is supported by an advertising business model, there will be no incentive to spend 10x, 100x, 1000x to report real news, when you can do this at an industrial scale, effortlessly. Most people read the news to be entertained, not to be informed. Their attention gravitates around stories, not facts or statistics. Truth is marginally important as long as the news doesn't directly, urgently, impact them. This is why fake stories and misinterpreted (real) news stay with us for decades and are often impossible to eradicate (for example: we use only 10% of our brain). So, if the fabricated news is more interesting to read, who cares to find out if it's fabricated? More importantly, if the boundary between fabricated and real news blurs, reality starts to become unstable*, and trust in anything erodes. And if we don't trust anything, we don't act on anything. We just passively watch and enjoy data as it's served to us, suspending judgment on its veridicity. Even more importantly, if we don't trust anything, any real news somebody doesn't like can be countered by a hundred fabricated news stories that suggest the opposite. Effectively neutering any opposition to anything. "Did you read the newspaper? What happened today? Everything. Nothing. I don't know anymore." *Hence the name of the R&D company I founded. (credit for the image: @nickfloats) #fakenews #ai #aigenerated #postreal

Is FE Running to Standstill? FE Soundbite Edition 712 FE Soundbite is the weekly e-journal from FE News, we understand that life is busy, so here is a snapshot from all of the cool thought leadership, videos, articles and big announcements from this week on FE News. We have more on the massive Running to Stand Still report released this week by Federation of Awarding Bodies ... this was a massive report, exploring the #productivity puzzle, reflecting on 20 years of #SkillsPolicy, speaking to the people who created the policies over the past 20 years, looking at productivity from a skills perspective and my inner data geek got all excited with all of the cool data sets and data sets you usually don't see.. This is massive. Massive outcome for me, how do we develop #Trust? A really interesting report (and it is massive... eg it is like a book in length). So we have articles from the report authors my mate Prof Tom Bewick and top social researcher Matilda Gosling. FE News is 20 years old this September. As a part of the celebrations, we have 20 Voices- short 2 min videos (Shorts) from experts and influencers in different parts of the FE and Skills Eco-system. This week we have perspectives from Charles McIntyre, Jill Whittaker OBE FCA FRSA FIH FBII, Paul Grainger, Associate Professor Deirdre Hughes OBE and Dr Katerina Kolyva. Well worth grabbing a coffee and checking out there insights... and the views (Jill is in a tower at an airport and Paul is at a folk festival). Also, if you like what you hear from them.... well each of our 20 Voices this week will be at the FE Collective (our first event in 20 years).... so not only do you get to hear from them, but you can work with them on the collaborative report as well! We have exclusives from Arden University on #Neurodiversity Professor Finola Farrant, Emma Owen, Marta Jaksa and Fawn Lavina Hunkins-Beckford. My mate Louise Karwowski PhD also wrote a very cool 20 Voices piece reflecting on the transformation and progress made on Neurodiversity this week. We also have articles from Dennis Sherwood on #creativity, Ben Harris explains how to gain 390 hours of your life back with #AI. neil wolstenholme wrote a really interesting piece on #character education and #ethics (from Gillian Keegan to Aristotle). Daniele Servadei writes a piece on young people kicking off a #career in tech. We also have some In Case you missed its... (ICYMI), are on campus #foodbanks the new staple, Richard Foster-Fletcher 🌎wrote an interesting piece on AI and #SocialLearning (Richard is also talking at the FE Collective) and more on Knovia and their acquisition of Paragon Skills and Tempdent Recruitment & Training. Also more on ONS and a worrying spike in #NEETs. I hope you enjoy FE Soundbite this week https://lnkd.in/eu5GEcw3 FE News: ISSN 2732-4095

Behavioural science can be powerful, but how do you figure out what to use, when? 🤯 I recently catalogued all of the behavioural science principles I'm aware of (which won't be all of them!) and it came to a grand total of 149 - which is an insane amount when you're considering which one to use! How can you use creative exploration to decide on your behavioural testing? 🧠 Start by thinking about what you want to achieve. What behaviour is it that you want to change? 🧠 Consider the audience you are trying to reach and what is important to them. What are their motivations, needs and wants? 🧠 Connect these motivations back to relevant behavioural science principles to create your testing framework This can allow you to not only narrow down the principles, but get to a point of testing, allowing you to see what resonates and what doesn't with your audience 💪 #behaviouralscience #behaviouraltesting #marketingstrategy