Game Theory Professor asks Student ‘What Grade he thinks he Deserves' on Assignment

Larry Jones ’12 was asked by his game theory professor “what grade he thought he deserved” before assigning a grade to his first paper. “It was a total mindfuck," said Jones, "What does he want me to say? What is he thinking? What if I say ‘A’? I think it’s my dominant strategy, but what if he thinks it’s worse so he counts off for that too? Maybe this is the point of the whole assignment? It's like game theory or something.”