Game Theory, New Statistics, and Baseball
Now, more than ever, statistical analyses and models are taking the sports world by storm. The bottom line is, sports is a business, and the team executives who spend every year trying to assemble championship rosters are relying heavily on newly developed statistics that measure a variety of information. For example, in baseball, the statistic […]
Game Theory and The Hunger Games
The prisoner’s dilemma has been used to predict many real world applications, from sports games to genetic dominance. Decision making in these circumstances usually can rely on a payoff matrix and finding the dominant strategies for both players. In an article written by Michael Lewis, a professor at Hunter College, game theory is applied to […]
Game Theory Behind Tinder For Men
“Right. Right. Right. Right. Eh… Right.” Said every guy ever on Tinder. Tinder is a mobile matchmaking application that allows users to connect with one another. Users connect their Facebook profiles to their Tinder account, which then contains their pictures and interests. They can then view profiles of potential candidates which displays their pictures and […]
Two-leveled game theory and the Israel-Hamas conflict
As part of being a human in this world I spend time in each day to learn about what is going on around the world. In doing so I recently stumbled upon an article that lightly analyzed the interplay of force tactics and negotiation tactics of both the Israeli government and Hamas, the current ruling […]
Game Theory: ALS ice bucket challenge
Our society has been introduced to interesting challenges that have transformed into trends within these last few years. Most recently, we’ve been hit with the ALS ice bucket challenge which is used to promote awareness of the diseases, amytrophic lateral sclerosis, and to encourage donations to its research. For starters, the challenge is simple, inexpensive, […]
Game Theory and the Usage of Antibiotics
It’s been shown that the usage of antibiotics by members of society can be somewhat modeled by a multiperson game referred to as “The Tragedy of the Commons” (article link at bottom). In “The Tragedy of the Commons,” the players are many individuals who make up a group. Each player has two strategies: A and […]
Social Network Analysis Could Lead to More People Receiving Health Information
The article “Pairing social networks with social motives to close the science gap” by Amanda Morris describes a study being done to create a network of how people receive their health advice in order to understand what the most effective way to disseminate information to people about healthcare and relevant health issues is. The information […]
Using game theory to understand altruism in the context of natural selection
Why does altruism arise in nature? In the context of natural selection, actions such as giving food to the hungry or helping other animals in danger don’t make much sense; they are behaviors which put the individual at risk and which, over time, should vanish according to the principles of evolution. Indeed, in the game […]
Are Acquaintances Making the World More Connected?
About a month ago I began reading Duncan Watts’ Six Degrees of Separation. Based on the widely popular concept that everyone is separated by six or less acquaintances from any other person in the world, Watts sets out to explain the complexities and importance of understanding networks to make sense of the world. The concept […]
Facebook mood experiment
The recent mood alteration experiment published in July of this year, conducted by Facebook and Cornell University data scientists back in the beginning of 2012 has raised concerns. The goals of the experiment are not entirely clear. We can speculate that the “mood experiment” was to observe how people emotions were influenced by others in […]
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