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Everybody skipping the exam is a Nash equilibrium, but assuming perfectly rational behaviour (and that everybody has a utility function which depends solely on final exam grade) is dangerous.

This is, of course, why students turned up and waited outside to see if they needed to write the exam rather than just assuming that other students would all do the "obvious" thing.




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