Re: Sky
Nothing changed wrt doping in cycling, yet the operation to keep it from the eyes of the administration, but more importantly, the public. The strategy just went further underground. They were already doing stuff that contravened regulations, why would they have done a volte face and then decide to live by the regulations. This is the fallacy in this JV thinking 'everyone got clean in 2006 and folks just stopped doping, because, you know, it was not cool anymore'.
not just Game Theory, a better lens is probably Insider-Outsider sociology. Or, some intersection of Game Theory and Insider-Outsider. The walls to Insider operations just are altered to protect it from the gaze of the Outsider.
aka John Nash Game Theory. won a Nobel Prize in economics for this. Was a Princeton mathematician. You would have watched the Hollywood feature film with Australian actor Russell Crowe on him, but the Nobel was for economics. I think. someone else google it, I am probably wrong.Wiggo's Package said:B_Ugli said:Interesting comments from Dr Michael Ashenden back in 2012
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/oct/20/doping-team-sky-cyclin
Very surprised no one has contacted him for a comment on all this.
Even more pertinent from Ashenden, from his 2012 "Omerta 101" CN article:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/opinion-michael-ashenden-on-omerta-101/
"Despite the self-serving data bending and associated propaganda to the contrary, I am led to believe that there are pockets of organised, highly sophisticated dopers even within ‘new age’ cycling teams. Personally, I don’t accept that the ‘dark era’ has ended, it has just morphed into a new guise."
Nothing changed wrt doping in cycling, yet the operation to keep it from the eyes of the administration, but more importantly, the public. The strategy just went further underground. They were already doing stuff that contravened regulations, why would they have done a volte face and then decide to live by the regulations. This is the fallacy in this JV thinking 'everyone got clean in 2006 and folks just stopped doping, because, you know, it was not cool anymore'.
not just Game Theory, a better lens is probably Insider-Outsider sociology. Or, some intersection of Game Theory and Insider-Outsider. The walls to Insider operations just are altered to protect it from the gaze of the Outsider.