Focal Point
Point here refers to a point in the solution space, in essence, a solution
Schelling said fluffily, "Sometimes the solution is determined by human PRIOR, even in the absence of communication, right?"
It was based on the coordination game that it is good to choose the same things as other people https://gyazo.com/c5df53a8bfdf08543180e43af3255dfc
Choose one of them → choose red
I think the context at this time is social diffusion.
[Vol. 2 The mechanism of occurrence of social phenomena of fashion and dissemination and behavioral observation - on the subject of T.C. Schelling's theory of "marginal mass" - | OGIS Research Institute, Inc. https://www.ogis-ri.co.jp/column/kr/87. html] On the other hand, this phenomenon was later examined in the field of game theory
Level K thinking] by Stahl and Wilson
Talk about creating a coordination game composition of "input values that others might input" by a mechanism that rewards sending values in the 25th~75th percentile of others. ---
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