Talk:Schelling point
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Grand Central Station is more convenient than most other spots. --user talk:hillgentleman 19:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
More convienent than penn station? As a aside, my favorite response to this is "the reading room at the NY public library" why? "because the people you meet there are more interesting..." (from academic urban legend) 24.153.227.130 22:45, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Is Coles_Corner a Schelling point?
The Strategy of Conflict, p. 55, footnote 1, states that the focal point was the information booth at Grand Central station.
[edit] it's called a focal point
Compare the number of scholarly papers using the term "Schelling point" (108)
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22schelling+point
with those containing "focal point" and "game" (>40,000)
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22focal+point%22+game
I don't know where this idea was picked up, but it seems to be wrong, as is the claim (in Schelling's Wikipedia article) that "he introduced the concept of the focal point, now commonly called the Schelling point." It was this incorrect claim that led me here.66.71.90.75 (talk) 14:21, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- I agree. "Focal point" is by far a better title. --Fioravante Patrone en (talk) 14:42, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
