Sentences with phrase «effect of these nudges»

We have a number of studies that look at short - term and narrow effects of nudges to get students into college.

That is, students who didn't think they were ready for college but were pushed into attending may have difficulty finishing and other students who enroll later may be better prepared at that point to succeed, causing the overall effect of these nudges to be null or even negative.

''... my tentative sense is that, on balance, the Supreme Court's decisions post-Bush v. Gore have tended to have the overall effect of nudging the law slightly in a liberal direction.»

Not exact matches

We may all have suspected that heat waves don't bring out our best selves, but having scientific confirmation of the fact should nudge you to be more aware of the effect.

The team compared the effectiveness of nudge - type strategies with more standard policy interventions, calculating the ratio between an intervention's causal effect and its implementation cost.

«The general impression is that nudging without using regulation is going to have at best only a small effect in the context of the very large changes that are required,» Marteau says.

Quantum effects have also nudged into the realm of objects visible to the naked eye (see main story).

New research describes possible planetary systems where a gravitational nudge from one planet could have a mild to devastating effect on the orbit and climate of another, possibly habitable world.

He claims that he barely nudged one and a domino effect of catastrophe resulted, but I like to imagine that after months of their fragrant labels staring at him, he just couldn't take it anymore.

Sit all day at a steady 70mph and select the goody - two - shoes Eco Pro mode (softening the effect of the accelerator, making the Optimum Shift Indicator more keen and reducing the power consumption of the climate control and heated mirrors and seats) and I'm sure it'd easily nudge up towards 50mpg and something like 600 miles on a tank.

Many plan sponsors do not seem to grasp that simply making tools available to participants is not enough — something of a push or nudge is required for any such offering to take full effect.

It has always been informally acknowledged that the sincere nudge of a cold, wet nose can chase the blues away, but the cathartic and life enhancing effects of canine companionship can be harnessed in a more structured way to cope with depression, as Patrick Ellis discovered.

The Citadel in particular is, despite the chaos of war, full of life and its little idiosyncrasies, giving your mind that extra little nudge, immersing you into the Mass Effect universe.

For years, Bethesda has been locked in a battle with BioWare to achieve top - dog honours in the RPG genre, and judging by the demo of the game we saw at E3, Skyrim should see it nudge ahead, at least until next year, when Mass Effect 3 is due.

His main focus was the use of the term by the media, but he provided a very useful deconstruction of various climate - related risks and whether they had that «little nudge, big effect» quality.

Constraining the influence of natural variability to improve estimates of global aerosol indirect effects in a nudged version of the Community Atmosphere Model 5.

There is an effect of a Stratospheric feed - back in winter whereby weaker UV levels during low solar cause less warming of the Strat in low latitudes and thereby weaken the Strat deltaT, and giving a nudge to displacement / disruption of the PV.

Apart from wreaking havoc and killing a lot of people, Bopha's main effect was to nudge annual cyclone activity back up towards something approaching the long - term norms.

The image that emerges here is not one of a technology that receives a gentle nudge to help it replace the outdated but culturally entrenched technology we currently use, but rather, of a number of private companies that compete for a variety of subsidies handed out by governments who seek to plan in advance how future technology will have to look, willfully ignorant of whatever effect physical limits might have on determining which technologies are economically viable to sustain and which aren't.

Update: March 2016 (month 63/120): We're still seeing the effect of the El Nino nudging the green line closer.

While the UK is set to vote on a possible farewell from the European Union, a new EU patent system is in its final stages, but the timing of such changes could have a nudge effect on SMEs looking to protect their intellectual property.