I feel like they failed by telling the people involved that it was a “game”. When people hear that, they want to win. Win what? Doesn’t matter.
Calling it a simulation would have maybe made people realize that it was a serious experiment. Some of the wording made me think they did call it a simulation, but then this guy:
“worse than no deal at all is any deal that favors China” says it all.
It’s just a game to them. Even the acts of bombing other countries is a game to them. If they had framed this as more serious, people like this guy would probably not participate and the simulation would have provided better data.
I feel like they failed by telling the people involved that it was a “game”. When people hear that, they want to win. Win what? Doesn’t matter.
Calling it a simulation would have maybe made people realize that it was a serious experiment. Some of the wording made me think they did call it a simulation, but then this guy: “worse than no deal at all is any deal that favors China” says it all.
It’s just a game to them. Even the acts of bombing other countries is a game to them. If they had framed this as more serious, people like this guy would probably not participate and the simulation would have provided better data.