Student’s Dilemma, a riff of the Prisoner version with extra credit

July 10, 2015

Statistics / game theory, Prisoner's Dilemma

By way of Chris Volinsky, a quiz dilemma for students who want extra credit. It’s a variation on the Prisoner’s Dilemma, a popular game theory example that uses two criminals instead of students and lesser jail time instead of extra credit.

What’s your answer? I take the two.

See who has it worse off and better than you.

They say a watched pot never boils. So here’s a game where you try to make the pot boiling by looking somewhere else.

I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.

These are the traffic crashes that resulted in deaths in 2015, categorized by month, time of day, and factors involved.