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Game theory challenge: Can you predict human behavior? - Lucas Husted

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Given a range of integers from 0 to 100, what would the whole number closest to 2/3 of the average of all numbers guessed be? For example, if the average of all guesses is 60, the correct guess will be 40. The game is played under conditions known to game theorists as “common knowledge:” every player has the same information— they also know that everyone else does too. Lucas Husted explains.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Lucas Husted
Director
Anton Trofimov
Narrator
Addison Anderson
Sound Designer
Weston Fonger
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Producer
Alex Rosenthal
Associate Producer
Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Script Editor
Alex Gendler
Fact-Checker
Eden Girma

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