Applying the Concepts- Basic 11.18 Do nice guys really finish last? In baseball,

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Applying the Concepts- Basic 11.18 Do nice guys really finish last? In baseball, there is an old saying that "nice guys finish last." Is this true in the competitive corporate world? Researchers at Harvard University attempted to answe: this question and reported their results in Nature (Mats 20, 2008). In the study, Boston-area college students repeatedly played a ver- sion of the game "prisoner's dilemma," where competi- tors choose cooperation, defection, or costly punishment. (Cooperation meant paying 1 unit for the opponent to receive 2 units; defection meant gaining 1 unit at a cost of

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a) Based on scatterplot the trend is liniear.

b) The slope of the line relating x to the y is negative since line is trailing down in right direction.

c) From scatterplot for some negative y values x values are positive. Thus, even thout player is a winner is uses punishments. Hence we conclude that winners pay use punishments at some extents. Herefore we do not agree with the researchers conclusion that 'winners do not use punishments'

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