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This seems really trivial. There always has to be at least one gift that is of average value or greater. Also, there probably aren't a large number of gifts in
by gragas 11y ago
This seems really trivial. There always has to be at least one gift that is of average value or greater. Also, there probably aren't a large number of gifts in white elephant gift exchanges, so it's not so safe to generalize the average value of the opened gifts to the entire population.
I was really hoping for a more rigorous proof and a more non-intuitive strategy.
- wrsh07 11y agoAgree that a more rigorous proof / non-intuitive strategy would be welcome, but all gifts could be of equal value. [eg if you go second]
- Vraxx 11y agoSeriously.. They tried to complicate it by bringing expected value, which isn't terribly complicated even still, but the whole strategy can be summed up with the following. Do you like any of the gifts here more than than the "average" gift, if so, steal. Is this really news? I appreciated the sentiment of this post, but not the content.