Are You A Logical Person?

The prisoner’s dilemma is one of the fundamental demonstrations of individual human behaviour. The dilemma goes as follows:

Two prisoners are taken into custody with inadequate evidence of involvement, and therefore put in separate rooms for interrogation. We will caller the prisoners P1 and P2.

The officers had an interesting offer to P1 and P2 simultaneously. Let’s start by discussing this offer.

P1, if you turn P2 in, and he stays silent about it, you will not face any jail time, whereas P2 will face a 3 year jail time.

If they both remain silent, they would only face one year in jail for lack of increment sentence related evidence.

P2, if you turn in P1 in, and he stays silent about it, you will not face any jail time, whereas P1 will face a 3 year jail time.

Now if P1 and P2 both confess, they will have to serve a shorter sentence than the first two scenarios. They will have to stay in jail for 2 years each.

What would be a logical choice?

If they both stay silent, they get 1 year each, if they both confess, they get 2 years each, and if one stays silent and the other confesses, which is highly likely to happen in decision making situations that revolve around consequential analysis, uncertainty will be the dominant…