Talk:Dictator game

message: Before changing "her" to "him" or "they" please see the wikipedia manual of style which says that when two or more correct usages are available the choice by the initial author should remain.  Even if the singular plural should be used, this edit uses the non-word "themself" (it should be "themselves").  --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 04:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just use the "singular they" and be done with it. Hanxu9 (talk) 13:12, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

text: Since the above comments were written, the Manual of Style has been updated to say "Use gender-neutral language where this can be done with clarity and precision". I prefer singular "they", although I would not object to using "he/she". On the history of "themself" (which dates back at least to the 13th Century), see: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/themself Freelance Intellectual (talk) 13:15, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender pronouns 

message: I have removed references to John List's experiments.  I can find no reference to these experiments on his webpage.  --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 21:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List 

message: "Proposers fail to maximize their own expected utility,"
is there something I'm missing here? :) I can imagine a different game would clearly demonstrate that it is not simply a mechanical/assessment failure: the Nero-game. Two players, one pile of money and one lighter. The first player may select any amount of money from the pile, and give the rest to the other player, who must burn the rest of the money with the lighter. -- Robbie C.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.253.148 (talk) 13:22, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  it can't be failure to maximize utility 

message: Another possibility why people will take money, even though when giving they don't divide it 100% to themselves, is the difference in social perception between being an aggressive competitor and being simply "mean". I think I've seen something on this, any ideas??
Aardwolf (talk) 20:24, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What about just stabilizing the society ? In dictator game i may expect that my opponent is beggar, and if i would not give him some "living minimum" he'd get useless at best: he may die decreasing available working hands number in my and his society, he may turn to crimes or to riots making my living in the society worse overall. The taker game implies he already has some belongings, so while i would make him less rich, i do not leave him penniless. So basically it is all about finding "living minimum" that makes the society comfort to live within. Add "if the opponent would have less than $5 then he'd die" and i expect dictator would give him those five plus some safety margin, while taker would try to know how much the victim possesses no, to determine how much he can safely withdraw. 176.195.124.191 (talk) 19:31, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Taking versus giving

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*Reference : Korenok Oleg & Edward L. Millner & Laura Razzolini, 2013. "Taking, Giving, and Impure Altruism in Dictator Games," Working Papers 1301, VCU School of Business, Department of Economics.
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thread_title:  Dr. Korenok's comment on this article 

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message: I have edited the structure of the article to highlight the substance of the description section.  A part of this had commented on the status of the game as a game (which I have moved into the lede), another on the application of the game (which I have put into a new section, titled Application, which could be used to contain other parts of the article), and the decription itself.  These parts are brief and none is referenced.  Consequently I replaced the old template box with inline requests to each.  From the actual description/game the impression is given that the "game" is lacking not only those elements required of a game but also those required for a decision.  The description given contains no clue to any constraints nor to any context of the "decision" required.  Although this seems inconceivable unfortunately I have been unable to find any other description of the game from an online search, so at this point I am unable to do more. LookingGlass (talk) 11:47, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description etc 

message: The link to the german article leads to the "Vertrauensspiel" which is different from the dictator game. Somehow I could not remove the link myself.
Meerpirat (talk) 10:09, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to German Version is wrong 

message: Using only money to evaluate some entity's interest is unscientific.
While there doesn't seem to be a scientific way for so... anyway, it could be the key to answer: what humanity is really.
...Being able to define somebody's whims, it would not be far from being able to define that "somebody" wholesale.
— Wikipedian Right (talk) 07:43, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the evaluation