PHIL215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Free Rider Problem, Diminishing Returns, Utility
12 Dec 2019
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For today"s side quest, either: design your own game (you don"t have to make a game table, just describe the potential outcomes, evaluate a game from the text (do the values make sense, are the optimal strategies correct?) A lot of good similarities and interesting similarities. The reason i"ve asked these poll questions about the group work is because of the free rider problem. In this case, the stakes were very low since the work was optional and the reward for doing it was personally determined. As such, people who didn"t contribute to the csr models were not really free riders. On the other hand, you have likely all had group projects with free riders that got credit while doing nothing. Diffusion of responsibility the more people you have for a collective outcome the more people realize and choose that their responsibility is not needed (because they think that others will take the responsibility)
