2014-10-09
Original: 2014-10-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Narration: There is an experiment called "The Ultimatum Game."
A smiling man: Subject A, you get $100. You must offer some split to Subject B. Subject B can accept or reject. If she rejects, nobody gets any money.
Panel 2:
The smiling man: Logically, Subject B should be happy with any offer but that doesn't happen.
A man with dark spiky hair (Subject B): 5 bucks? Up yours, you greedy bastard!
Panel 3:
Narration: That was an incredibly counterintuitive result to nobody but economists.
The smiling man: The humans aren't doing what the math says. The humans must be broken!
Panel 4:
Narration: However, it IS a useful sort of detection method.
A man with light hair: I offer you exactly nothing.
An older man with glasses: You're not, by any chance, a neoclassical economist, are you?
The light-haired man: How did you know???
Votey:
A close-up of a face with a wide manic grin, with hand-drawn text: GIMME YER WALLET. The figure brandishes a knife.
Narration: There is an experiment called "The Ultimatum Game."
A smiling man: Subject A, you get $100. You must offer some split to Subject B. Subject B can accept or reject. If she rejects, nobody gets any money.
Panel 2:
The smiling man: Logically, Subject B should be happy with any offer but that doesn't happen.
A man with dark spiky hair (Subject B): 5 bucks? Up yours, you greedy bastard!
Panel 3:
Narration: That was an incredibly counterintuitive result to nobody but economists.
The smiling man: The humans aren't doing what the math says. The humans must be broken!
Panel 4:
Narration: However, it IS a useful sort of detection method.
A man with light hair: I offer you exactly nothing.
An older man with glasses: You're not, by any chance, a neoclassical economist, are you?
The light-haired man: How did you know???
Votey:
A close-up of a face with a wide manic grin, with hand-drawn text: GIMME YER WALLET. The figure brandishes a knife.
Alt text
A four-panel comic explaining the Ultimatum Game. Panel 1: a smiling man explains, "There is an experiment called 'The Ultimatum Game.' Subject A, you get $100. You must offer some split to Subject B. Subject B can accept or reject. If she rejects, nobody gets any money." Panel 2: he says "Logically, Subject B should be happy with any offer but that doesn't happen," while a spiky-haired man angrily replies, "5 bucks? Up yours, you greedy bastard!" Panel 3: narration reads "That was an incredibly counterintuitive result to nobody but economists," as the man frets, "The humans aren't doing what the math says. The humans must be broken!" Panel 4: narration says it IS a useful detection method. A light-haired man says "I offer you exactly nothing," and an older bespectacled man asks, "You're not, by any chance, a neoclassical economist, are you?" The light-haired man replies, "How did you know???" The joke: only a neoclassical economist would behave as the cold math predicts. Votey: a manic grinning face brandishes a knife with hand-lettered text reading "GIMME YER WALLET" — a mugger offering the same one-sided ultimatum.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.