scholarly journals WHY AND WHEN SOME PEOPLE WOULD THINK A GIRL IS MORE LIKELY TO CHEAT: A GAME-THEORETIC APPROACH

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwame Otu Gyeke Asante

The question, “Who is more likely to cheat in a relationship?” has been discussed a lot recently. This short exercise intends to explain that in a world where people subscribe to certain “Beliefs” and under a certain condition called the “No Love Condition”, a situation can be found such that, in a relationship, the girl is more likely to cheat than the boy. The question of “Why?” is answered by the Beliefs and the No Love Condition. The question of “When?” is answered by the situation to be found.

1982 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Alan Batlin ◽  
Susan Hinko

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Diamant ◽  
Shoham Baruch ◽  
Eias Kassem ◽  
Khitam Muhsen ◽  
Dov Samet ◽  
...  

AbstractThe overuse of antibiotics is exacerbating the antibiotic resistance crisis. Since this problem is a classic common-goods dilemma, it naturally lends itself to a game-theoretic analysis. Hence, we designed a model wherein physicians weigh whether antibiotics should be prescribed, given that antibiotic usage depletes its future effectiveness. The physicians’ decisions rely on the probability of a bacterial infection before definitive laboratory results are available. We show that the physicians’ equilibrium decision rule of antibiotic prescription is not socially optimal. However, we prove that discretizing the information provided to physicians can mitigate the gap between their equilibrium decisions and the social optimum of antibiotic prescription. Despite this problem’s complexity, the effectiveness of the discretization solely depends on the type of information available to the physician to determine the nature of infection. This is demonstrated on theoretic distributions and a clinical dataset. Our results provide a game-theory based guide for optimal output of current and future decision support systems of antibiotic prescription.


2021 ◽  
pp. 127407
Author(s):  
Yuhan Bai ◽  
Kai Fan ◽  
Kuan Zhang ◽  
Xiaochun Cheng ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
...  

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