Explorations of Empirical and Formal Research in Political Science
The Quantitative Peace welcomes Jason Steck, of Creighton University, as a new contributor to the blog. With a background in International Relations, Civil-Military Relations, and formal modeling, we look forward to Jason’s insights, observations, and contributions to the developing community and readership of the Quantitative Peace.
I posted previously that Freakonomics was hosting a Prisoner’s Dilemma contest. About a week ago they selected the top five answers and had a quick voting contest (comment democracy with 48 hours to decide the winner). Since I am both currently attending one of the EITM summer programs and exercising my current mathematical knowledge by attempting to run a maximum likelihood estimation of a generalized Prisoner’s Dilemma model with a normally distributed cost function to the players for cooperation; it seemed like a good time to return to the post and evaluate the answers provided. Adding a pre-game to the Continue reading Prisoner’s Dilemma Answers
Dubner at the NYTimes Freakonomics Blog asks the following question to his readers given prisoner’s dilemma problem: Pretend for a minute that you have done something to put yourself in jeopardy and are facing a real-life Prisoner’s Dilemma. Now pretend additionally that you get to choose your partner in the dilemma. There are three people to choose from. You cannot see or talk directly to the three people, but you are allowed to ask one question of each of the three people to help make your decision. What is the one question you’d ask? Apparently, selected winners will receive material Continue reading Freakonomics allows one question for Prisoner’s Dilemma – Does it Matter?