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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

Related: The NPR podcast Planet Money recently held a "contest" where you had to pick the number from 0 to 100 that would be the average of all guesses. If you assume everyone is rational (and everyone's estimate of each other's rationality, recursively) it should be 0; the actual answer was around 11.5.




the average of all guesses

Should be something like "two-thirds of the average of all guesses".




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