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From Homer to happy hour: the etymology of ‘nudge’ – The Guardian
This week, UK government figures are hoping that restricting entry to pubs to the vaccinated will serve as a ‘nudge’ for young people to get the Covid jab
Steven Poole’s word of the weekThis week, UK government figures are hoping that restricting entry to pubs to the vaccinated will serve as a nudge for young people to get the Covid jab
Should entry to pubs and other houses of mirth be restricted to people with vaccine passports? Government figures have argued that this would be a strong nudge to youngsters to get jabbed. But why a nudge rather than an incentive, or blackmail?
The origins of the word nudge are unclear, possibly from Norwegian nugge,…
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