You should make a longer pause where the audience is supposed to pause the video. (If you don’t want to bother with video editing, just stay silent for 5 seconds.)
In the video about promises and threats, I think you have kinda spoiled the whole exercise by calling the choices “Promise” and “Threat” immediately. Would be better if you would just give them neutral names (like you said “if ‘Promise’ distracts you, just imagine there is ‘P’”; well, you could have just written “P”), let audience solve it the usual way, and only then ask “wouldn’t it be better for Player 2 if they could in advance make a promise/threat to follow this choice?”.
Otherwise, the videos are great! I approve of your choice to make imperfect videos right now, as opposed to something hypothetically better in unspecified future.
In video 5, why is it important to define “dominant strategy” as “this line always gives the greatest value” as opposed to “greater or equal value”?
Would it be somehow wrong for Player One here to say “I don’t care what happens, I pick B, because there is never a reason not to”? If not, then why treat this case differently?
EDIT: Okay, I got it. There is no difference for Player One, but may be a difference for Player Two in that they might be unable in some situations to predict Player One’s move (which doesn’t influence the Player One’s payoff in such situation, but may influence Player Two’s payoff).
If this is also your reason, it might be useful to mention the bit ”...and Player Two can predict that a rational Player One will choose their dominant strategy” in the video.
EDIT2: Or maybe you should introduce the term “weakly dominant strategy” immediately after explaining that “greater or equal value” is not a “dominant strategy”. Just to make it clear that this type of situation will not be ignored later.
Seen the first three videos, here is my feedback:
You should make a longer pause where the audience is supposed to pause the video. (If you don’t want to bother with video editing, just stay silent for 5 seconds.)
In the video about promises and threats, I think you have kinda spoiled the whole exercise by calling the choices “Promise” and “Threat” immediately. Would be better if you would just give them neutral names (like you said “if ‘Promise’ distracts you, just imagine there is ‘P’”; well, you could have just written “P”), let audience solve it the usual way, and only then ask “wouldn’t it be better for Player 2 if they could in advance make a promise/threat to follow this choice?”.
Otherwise, the videos are great! I approve of your choice to make imperfect videos right now, as opposed to something hypothetically better in unspecified future.
THANKS!
In video 5, why is it important to define “dominant strategy” as “this line always gives the greatest value” as opposed to “greater or equal value”?
Would it be somehow wrong for Player One here to say “I don’t care what happens, I pick B, because there is never a reason not to”? If not, then why treat this case differently?
EDIT: Okay, I got it. There is no difference for Player One, but may be a difference for Player Two in that they might be unable in some situations to predict Player One’s move (which doesn’t influence the Player One’s payoff in such situation, but may influence Player Two’s payoff).
If this is also your reason, it might be useful to mention the bit ”...and Player Two can predict that a rational Player One will choose their dominant strategy” in the video.
EDIT2: Or maybe you should introduce the term “weakly dominant strategy” immediately after explaining that “greater or equal value” is not a “dominant strategy”. Just to make it clear that this type of situation will not be ignored later.