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Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
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Photos by Candice McKenzie
Madeline Gannon, Research Fellow, Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Cultural Leader captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
On a threatened site in Strathspey, Scotland. After moving little this individual performs a rapid burst of wing fluttering. (This was later repeated but not caught on camera). This behaviour appeared to be more than a comfort movement to shake off
rainwater.
This is my cat, Spenser, dunking his cat biscuits. I like how he waits for the beep, to be sure it's ready. the other strange thing this cat does, is steal tea bags to make tea in his water bowl, but this time he's dunking in plain water.
Breeding behaviour
Where possible, the birds excavate a nesting burrow into the soil. Sometimes they will make use of Manx shearwater or rabbit burrows. Where burrowing is not possible, the birds nest under boulders or in cracks and cavities in cliffs.
The birds defend the nesting site and its immediate surround, and use it in subsequent years. Puffins lay only a single egg, in late April or early May. Both parents incubate it for 36-45 days, and they share the feeding duties until the chick is ready to fledge.
The fledging period is very variable, ranging from 34 to 60 days, depending on the area and year.
Adult birds desert their young shortly before they are ready to leave the nest. The timing of the breeding in puffin colonies is highly synchronised, and so the departure of all adults takes place within a few days.
The young birds leave their nest burrow and make their way to the sea, normally under cover of darkness to avoid predators. In some colonies, for instance in Iceland, nearby bright lights confuse the young birds, which then fly into the light and end up on city streets.
Puffins usually reach breeding age at 5-6 years old, and often live for 20 years.
1. No Peeking (msh0710-1 and msh0710)
The female flicker turned her head upside down and lay on the grass with her eyes closed and beak slightly open. She stayed like this for several minutes, looking up every once in a while. At first I though that she might be ill, but then she got up, preened a bit and resumed checking back and forth over the lawn for something to eat. I wondered if she was lying there to allow ants to crawl on her so she could eat them?
July 5, 2010.
OK, they almost got it right - apart from some peculiar letter separations. Hopefully, stupid foreigners will be able to make sense of this warning sign before they carelessly climb up on the city wall in Xian, China, and plummet to their deaths. Like we're inclined to do.
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Some odd Sea Lion behaviour. One Sea Lion sat motionless in the water for perhaps an hour holding a fin/fluke in the air. Every few minutes it would raise its head and take a breath of air. A second Sea Lion was sitting beside it and would also raise its head occasionally. Mating behaviour?
Point Roberts.
"You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realise that you control your own destiny." Albert Ellis (via Twitter twitter.com/kimfishercbt/status/719221855517818881)