When Selecting Participants for a Focus Group, Should One Aim

question 18

Essay

When selecting participants for a focus group, should one aim for minimizing differences across participants?

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Definitions:

Game Trees

A graphical representation used to depict the outcomes of a game or decision-making process, showing different choices and their possible outcomes.

Sequential Games

are strategic interactions where the players make decisions one after another, with later players having knowledge of the earlier actions.

Nash Equilibrium

A concept in game theory where each player's strategy is optimal, given the strategies of other players, resulting in a situation where no player has an incentive to deviate from their chosen strategy.

Sequential Game

A type of game theory model where players make decisions or moves in a specific order, allowing for the reaction to previous moves by other players.