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The Safety Priorities If you’re in policing, you NEED to know the safety priorities!! It is such a key concept, that I made it a focus of my lethal force psychology chapter in my book Setting My Sights On Stigma. It is a decision-making model that informs decisions ensuring the sanctity of life, providing a ranked order reflecting the degree of control people have over the situations they find themselves in. It can be applied in almost every situation. Here is a basic framework: 1) Hostages 2) Civilians 3) Police Officers 4) Suspects / Subjects It is crucial that we start teaching this to all police officers. This provides a model for tactics decision making. It simplifies hard decisions under high stress. This is the model used by SWAT / ERT teams internationally, and it is provided by the National Tactial Officers Association (NTOA). When tactical mistakes have been made, and lives have been lost, it is almost always an inversion of the safety priorities. For example: 1) Officers don’t rush into a school to save kids during an active shooter. Sadly, we have heard of these calls. Officers are placing their safety, and the suspect’s safety, above civilians and hostages. 2) Officers launch an immediate action plan, attempting to rescue a sole male barricaded with a firearm, creating officer induced jeopardy, and likely a lethal force decision. If you’re in law enforcement and not yet teaching this, send me a private message and I can share some information with you. So, to answer Alex’s question, teaching the Safety Priorities to ALL POLICE OFFICERS, not just SWAT, is how you promote tactical decision making. That one simple model will lead to more safety for the public, officers and even suspects. Let me know in the comments if this concept is taught to all officers in your department, or if it is reserved for SWAT / ERT operators?

“We can design rules that make criminals confess, and we can create incentives that will make people want to do things they wouldn’t want to do normally.” — Kellogg's Ehud Kalai. The prisoner’s dilemma, a famous game-theory thought experiment, demonstrates how the right set of incentives can induce a criminal to confess and testify against an accomplice. A new paper from Kalai extends the logic of the prisoner’s dilemma to RICO prosecutions, which involve a larger number of coconspirators. In such more-complex games, as in other social interactions, one can construct rules that incentivize a more-desirable social behavior. Read more in "What Game Theory Can Teach Us about RICO Prosecutions" at Kellogg Insight.

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Prisoner's Dilemma of Pricing: A Practical Lesson in Game Theory and Pricing Strategies! 📱💼 I'm excited to share a web-based mini-game I've developed that demonstrates the concept of Nash equilibrium in single period pricing strategy, this game challenges you to outsmart your competitors in the marketplace. 🔍 Game Description: You are the CEO of a mobile phone company competing in the market. Your task is to set the price for your phone without knowing the price set by your competitor. The game guides you through potential outcomes based on different pricing strategies. 💡 Understanding Nash Equilibrium: In game theory, a Nash equilibrium occurs when each player in the game makes the best possible decision for themselves, considering the decisions of the other players. Can you identify the Nash equilibrium and determine the best pricing strategy in the Ultra-Phone game? Share your thoughts and strategies in the comments below after playing the game. I'm excited to hear about your experiences and insights! This game is based on the example provided in "Game Theory Models of Pricing" by Praveen K. Kopalle and Robert A. Shumsky, from The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management, edited by Özalp Özer and Robert Phillips, 2012. 🔗 Try the Ultra-Phone Game and see how your strategic decisions impact your company's success! #GameTheory #PricingStrategy #NashEquilibrium #Economics #WebDevelopment #BusinessStrategy

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I came across the Evolution of Trust (https://ncase.me/trust/) by Nicky Case while reading a blog post about Engineering Management by Christoph Nakazawa (https://lnkd.in/g5BhRZ7r). It's an interactive guide to the prisoner's dilemma problem. The exposition is well put together and, at the end, it has a fun sandbox for exploring (third breadcrumb circle from the end: 'Sandbox Mode'). The main thesis is that building trust requires three conditions: repeat interactions, possible win-wins scenarios, and low degrees of miscommunication. As with any model, it's a simplification. Nonetheless, the general principles are readily apparent. Real life has more interesting scenarios, like the the Golden Balls contestant who was able to convince his opponent to cooperate by insisting he was going to cheat (https://lnkd.in/gwanxMzN)!

I'm taking my site live today! Thinking Fallacy is a site that will talk about the gaming industry unbiasedly. The first article discusses the need for new original storytelling and the dangers of relying on remakes/remasters. I am also breaking down the stories in video games and showing what works well and what does not from a literature standpoint. It doesn't look like much for now but will grow fast! https://lnkd.in/eniyYxq7

This is a 4v4 game but the idea can be adapted with 7v7/9v9 etc. The example on the right with 3 lanes teaches attacking organization, with each player filling their assigned lanes, as the defenders learn compactness by filling only two lanes when the ball is in a wide lane. The example on the left shows something much different but equally as important. The attacking team still has width but also has many more options in a tight area. I view the game with only two overall principles - 1) exploit time and space to score & if you can't score - keep the ball. 2) Shut down time and space to stop the opponent from scoring & win the ball back. Both of these constrained environments change perception & action and require different solutions to be successful. This is a good example of how variability and constraints can be used in a real training session. At a very basic level almost represents relationism ideas vs positional ideas.

“Football is to recognise and anticipate on patterns. You see all kinds of patterns when you’re little…and you anticipate on the patterns…” Ruud Gullit 1. He’s seen it over and over (paying attention to the detail in his playing environment) 2. He’s made sense of what he’s seen and remembered it (thought about it to make meaning of it and processed it in both a visual and semantic way) 3. He can then make quicker and more effective decisions in games based upon what he sees in the moment (knowledge-in the game) with relation to what he’s seen and what he’s made sense of in the past (knowledge-of the game) Mastery of anticipation and decision-making… This requires… 1. Coach session design setting problems for players to detect and to solve 2. Coach behaviours that orient players’ attention to the problems to help them think about, work on, solve, and remember in-game problems 3. Player participation - attention, involvement, reflection-in-action, post session reflection-in-action to consolidate memories It’s a coach-player responsibility…