[MINI] The Battle of the Sexes
Data Skeptic
English - December 12, 2014 02:34 - 18 minutes - 20.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 480 ratingsScience Technology machinelearning science datamining datascience skepticism statistics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The Science of Online Data at Plenty of Fish with Thomas Levi
Love and Data is the continued theme in this mini-episode as we discuss the game theory example of The Battle of the Sexes. In this textbook example, a couple must strategize about how to spend their Friday night. One partner prefers football games while the other partner prefers to attend the opera. Yet, each person would rather be at their non-preferred location so long as they are still with their spouse. So where should they decide to go?