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    Challenges→A player's deviation from their Backward Induction strategy can be interpreted as a meaningless error with no implications for future play.

    Therefore, treating such deviations as informationally inert violates the Bayesian rationality assumptions that ground game-theoretic reasoning itself.

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    • 1.Bayesian rationality requires updating beliefs on all available evidence; deviations contain information about agent preferences or reasoning.
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    • 2.Game-theoretic predictions depend on accurate models of opponent behavior; ignoring deviations systematically produces false predictions.
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    • 3.Treating deviations as noise rather than signal commits a category error—it presupposes the theory it should test.
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    • 1.Some deviations reflect measurement error or noise, not meaningful information; distinguishing signal from noise is logically prior to Bayesian updating.
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    • 2.Game-theoretic models can remain rational while bracketing certain deviations; ignoring noise is standard practice in all empirical sciences.
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    • 3.Deviations may reflect non-rational factors (fatigue, emotion) that don't undermine rational theory, only its domain of application.
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