Inside the Nudge Unit

Inside the Nudge Unit

How small changes can make a big difference

David Halpern

The weight curves given to US parents to plot their child’s development, for some years, have not been the actual weight curves of US children. Rather, they are distributions of ‘healthy weight’, driven by the concern that if parents used the actual weight curves of US children it would exacerbate the problem of obesity even further
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