Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Emptying the Bottle: Late May '12 Links

Here is the best of what I've shared on Twitter recently:
As always, feel free to email me anything interesting you come across.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Cheating Game Theory on a Game Show

One of my favorite past blog posts was the one picked up by the New York Times' Freakonomics blog. It was about the economics of the game show finale of the Bachelor Pad. I then revisited the idea mentioning another reality TV show Golden Balls. It's a British show where at the end the two contestants have to decided whether to split or steal the money. Recently, a contestant played it a little differently: