Talk:Battle of the sexes (game theory)

message: The article is really hard to understand.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.137.32.218 (talk) 09:36, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: perhaps we should add a line like, "Some authors like to call this game Bach or Stravinsky, and have the players choose between hearing one or the other composer, in order to avoid any stereotypes that arise by using the title battle of the sexes and having the choices be 'male' and 'female' activities."  I think that the article should at least mention the other title, although I'm not sure how much it should go into the politically correctness of one name over another. Smmurphy(Talk) 02:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll take you up on this and do it. There is no need to use gender role stereotypes to describe this game. SemanticMantis (talk) 23:56, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

text: I've changed back to man and woman, prize fight and ballet. These are the originals in Luce and Raiffa, and they are stereotypes that ring true as extreme versions of reality, which is why they have traditionally been used-- it makes it easier to understand the game. It also makes sense of the name of the game, which is mystifying otherwise. An additional advantage is that it permits the natural use of "he" and "she" to avoid ambiguity. "Bach or Stravinsky" is special to Osborne and Rubinstein. I find it strange to think of burning money here as spousal abuse; the idea of burning money is commonly used in game theory without any such connection, simply to mean a gratuitously costly signal. editeur24 (talk) 21:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Editeur24 I just moved "Bach and Stravinsky" to the initial paragraph, and put it in bold per WP:R#PLA. "Battle of the Sexes", I imagine, remains the canonical title for this game and should (sadly in my opinion) continue to be the main title per WP:COMMONNAME DougInAMugtalk 11:17, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the explanation. editeur24 (talk) 23:31, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  BoS = Bach or Stravinsky? 

message: Shouldn't (Opera, Football) and (Football, Opera) options have the same (1,1) payoffs for both of them? What's makes (Opera, Football) better for both Kelly and Chris than (Football, Opera)? Delphi00 04:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle of the Sexes 2 table 

message: Are there also asymetric versions of this game? --Hutschi 06:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asymetric versions 

message: These are not adequately introduced. What does the numbers 2,3 and 3,2 mean, and where do they come from? CapnZapp (talk) 17:22, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Payoffs 

message: What is the point of burning?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.184.209 (talk) 21:53, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burning? 

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message: This section is controversial, and the only ref cited in the section is one that openly disagrees with its claims. The whole point of the "burning money" example is to show that one can't always remove weakly dominated strategies, and/or assume the other party is rational. By mentioning burning money here, it gives off the impression that doing both of these things is reasonable, while the whole point of the example is that it's unreasonable.
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thread_title:  Removing "Burning money" section