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Game Theory
 Game Theory is a set of strategic models
where hypothetical situations are simulated.
 The people who are part of the game will

have to act in these situations and arrive at

situations by making choices.

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Game Theory
 The choice that one of the players makes is
dependant on the choice the other players
make.
 This makes Game Theory interesting and

easily arrive at solutions in given hypothetical

situations.

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Application of Game Theory
 Game Theory is extensively used in preparing
◦ war strategies,
◦ political scenarios both national and international,
◦ economics,
◦ organizations,
◦ social psychology,
◦ computer science and
◦ statistics, etc.

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Battle Of The Sexes
 There are a number of games in Game
Theory. Some of the most popular are
Prisoner’s Dilemma.
 We shall discuss about Battle Of The Sexes.

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Battle Of The Sexes
 Battle of the Sexes, as the name suggests is a
hypothetical situation in which a man and a
woman are involved.
 Both of them agree to go on a date and forget

the venue they had decided upon.

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Battle Of The Sexes
 The woman wants to go a concert and the
man wants to go to a sport event.
 There is no way they can communicate and

one has to go to the place where the other

person is likely to go, i.e.

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Battle Of The Sexes
 Both the man and the woman has 2 choices
which are going to the sport event and wait
for the woman to arrive or going to the
concert and wait for her to arrive.
 The woman also faces the same situation. She

can either go to the concert or wait for him

there or she can go the sporting event.

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Battle Of The Sexes
 Both the man and the woman are in a
dilemma as where to go.
 The rational strategy for both the man and

the woman is to comply with the other’s

strategy.

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Battle Of The Sexes
 In the end the objective of the game is to get
the other player comply to your strategy.
 One has to remember that if you act too

selfish, your partner can always defect, even

though they loose.
 They might be happy of the fact that you also

stand to lose relatively more than they do.

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