Talk:Focal point (game theory)

Grand Central Station
Grand Central Station is more convenient than most other spots. --user talk:hillgentleman 19:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

More convienent than penn station? As a aside, my favorite response to this is "the reading room at the NY public library" why? "because the people you meet there are more interesting..." (from academic urban legend) 24.153.227.130 22:45, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Is Coles_Corner a Schelling point?

The Strategy of Conflict, p. 55, footnote 1, states that the focal point was the information booth at Grand Central station.

it's called a focal point
Compare the number of scholarly papers using the term "Schelling point" (108)

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22schelling+point

with those containing "focal point" and "game" (>40,000)

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22focal+point%22+game

I don't know where this idea was picked up, but it seems to be wrong, as is the claim (in Schelling's Wikipedia article) that "he introduced the concept of the focal point, now commonly called the Schelling point." It was this incorrect claim that led me here.66.71.90.75 (talk) 14:21, 5 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree. "Focal point" is by far a better title. --Fioravante Patrone en (talk) 14:42, 5 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Is Focal point or Focal equilibrium better? I think "focal point" is more commonly used, but there are non-equilibrium focal points possible in games, as well (in "level-k" theory for instance), so I'm thinking "focal equilibrium" might be better here. C RETOG 8(t/c) 16:13, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * a rough "quantitative analysis" (Google...) points at "focal point". Even if I understand, I hope :-), the argument by Cretog8, my feelings are more bent toward "focal point" which seems to me to be more commonly used in the GT literature. --Fioravante Patrone en (talk) 20:23, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

"but you cannot communicate"

 * if you are to meet a stranger in New York City, but you cannot communicate with the person, then when and where will you choose to meet?

A specific stranger, and you can't communicate with them on the day? Or an arbitrary stranger you have never met before and can't communicate with until you do? Marnanel (talk) 13:53, 27 December 2023 (UTC)