e-mail me your answers on this. assignment due monday. i'll be in my office sunday nine am til noon.
Results from class:
WINNER:
152, 135, 125, 124, 123, 121, 120, 118, 117, 103, 103, 95, 94, 92, 78, 69
1) What you played in class was a version of the 'iterated prisoner's dilemma'; it's a start into the vast world of game theory.
a) Write a brief paragraph describing your results. What seemed to work? What didn't?
b) If you were to do it again, what would you change?
c) read through these guidelines (at good old wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma#Strategy_for_the_classic_prisoner.27s_dilemma_2
do you see anything that is similar or drastically different from what you did? are there any strategies in there that ring true to you?
d) finally, explain how this might apply to real world situations.