> Watched a bit of the new Howie Mandel game show, another import from > overseas. Having taken the Yale course in Game Theory offered at the > iTunesUniversity portion of the iTunes Store, I'm familiar with Nash > Equilibrium, and I can tell that the gameplay can easily be manipulated. If > contestants spent a few hours studying both the math and psychology > involved, the outcome would be different.
And any "Deal or No Deal" contestant who understood the concept of expected value would have had an easy time making decisions. > TV isn't real. It has never been real. Some TV is real. Most of that is live coverage of events. One of the complaints about news often expressed here is, essentially, that newscasters try to make non-live coverage seem more "real".(Some of the allure of sports is that while fans may expect certain outcomes, the games themselves are unscripted and their results are often unpredictable.) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
