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government ‘nudge unit’ and bogus psychometric tests
Guardian reports that test for jobseekers, developed by Downing Street Behavioural Insights Team or ‘nudge unit’, is a sham, with the results having no relation to the answers given -
‘nudge unit’ to become profit making business -
Nudge-nudge - they’re making their Breakaway!!!!!
[this post will be incomprehensible to anyone born after about 1970. Sorry]
yep, born 1971 and i have no idea what you’re talking about
There was a TV advert for chocolate biscuits called Breakaways. It featured Eric Idle, as a cockney wide boy, sidling up to a bloke in the pub, mimicking the Monty Python sketch. Amongst the dialogue, Eric Idle would say “nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.
Jobseekers’ psychometric test ‘is a failure’, US institute that devised questionnaire tells government’s ‘nudge’ unit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/06/jobseekers-psychometric-test-failure
yep, born 1971 and i have no idea what you’re talking about
Born 1959 - Ditto!
It all sounds very Scientology to me, are we going to have the joyous sight of IDS appearing on Loose Women, jumping up & down on a sofa declaring how madly in love he is with benefit reform?