Originally posted on The SKWAWKBOX Blog:
Last year, the SKWAWKBOX triggered a severely-embarrassing chain of events for the government by revealing
that the DWP’s Jobcentre Plus (JCP) centres, under instruction from
David Cameron’s ‘Nudge Unit’ (read: psychological-manipulation), were
forcing unemployed people, under threat of immediate loss of benefits,
to take un-validated and dangerous ‘psychometric tests’ without
‘informed consent’ and, quite possibly, illegally in more ways than one. We also revealed a nudge-unit ‘front’ masquerading as a bona fide psychological institution.
It turned out that these tests were so poorly and cynically constructed that they gave the same ‘results’ to those completing them regardless of the answers entered – or even if the test was completed without entering any answers at all. The test had been taken – without permission – from a US psychologist linked to torture techniques such as waterboarding. (The author then objected to the unethical use of the test by the UK…
It turned out that these tests were so poorly and cynically constructed that they gave the same ‘results’ to those completing them regardless of the answers entered – or even if the test was completed without entering any answers at all. The test had been taken – without permission – from a US psychologist linked to torture techniques such as waterboarding. (The author then objected to the unethical use of the test by the UK…
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