Human brains suck at this sort of thing. You allude to the correct strategy—just randomize. Even without computer aids, you can probably find a reasonably random proxy, or if you have time a procedure to take non-computer random source and map it to the choices. In this case, I’d flip a coin 4 times to generate a 0-15 binary number, and just re-do it if it’s over 10 (as there are only 11 choices). This would completely bypass the idea of Schelling points.
You can probably do better by making use of Schelling’s insight rather than the specific of commonly-attractive points. Schelling observed that shared culture is actual information, and that what you know of your partners can be used without further communication. For this example, if I knew my partner well, I might think the younger partner would tend to choose lower, and I’d pick from the other half of the distribution. This is more a Schelling position-in-strategy-space than a Schelling point in the solution space, but it’s the same concept.
Human brains suck at this sort of thing. You allude to the correct strategy—just randomize. Even without computer aids, you can probably find a reasonably random proxy, or if you have time a procedure to take non-computer random source and map it to the choices. In this case, I’d flip a coin 4 times to generate a 0-15 binary number, and just re-do it if it’s over 10 (as there are only 11 choices). This would completely bypass the idea of Schelling points.
You can probably do better by making use of Schelling’s insight rather than the specific of commonly-attractive points. Schelling observed that shared culture is actual information, and that what you know of your partners can be used without further communication. For this example, if I knew my partner well, I might think the younger partner would tend to choose lower, and I’d pick from the other half of the distribution. This is more a Schelling position-in-strategy-space than a Schelling point in the solution space, but it’s the same concept.