This reminds me that Dr. Todd Gureckis, a researcher at NYU, has some work looking at inferring which hypothesis-testing strategies people are using as they pla

This reminds me that Dr. Todd Gureckis, a researcher at NYU, has some work looking at inferring which hypothesis-testing strategies people are using as they play (a version of) battleship. The three strategies he and his colleagues identify are a 'naive' or 'positive-testing strategy', an 'label entropy reduction strategy' and an 'information gain' strategy. The work is described in "A preference for the unpredictable over the informative during self-directed learning." It is an interesting paper. If you are interested in this post, you might like it: https://escholarship.org/content/qt0059t11p/qt0059t11p.pdf https://escholarship.org/content/qt0059t11p/qt0059t11p.pdf