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President Obama announced a new executive order on Tuesday which authorizes federal agencies to conduct behavioral experiments on U.S. citizens in order to advance government initiatives.<br />
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“A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights — research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them — can be used to design government policies to better serve the American people,” reads the executive order, released on Tuesday.<br />
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The new program is the end result of a policy proposal the White House floated in 2013 entitled “Strengthening Federal Capacity for Behavioral Insights.”<br />
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According to a document released by the White House at that time, the program was modeled on one implemented in the U.K. in 2010. That initiative created a Behavioral Insights Teams, which used “iterative experimentation” to test “interventions that will further advance priorities of the British government.”<br />
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by Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller

OBAMA ORDERS BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENTS ON AMERICAN PUBLIC

President Obama announced a new executive order on Tuesday which authorizes federal agencies to conduct behavioral experiments on U.S. ci...

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