Nothing to prepare — this session is the interactive lab for week 6’s
lecture. Your gut strategy will be recorded before the maths gets a chance
to embarrass it.
Everyone runs the same simulator: a sequence of ranked candidates arrives
one at a time, no recall, one slot to fill. First round, use your own gut
strategy and record your stopping point. Second round, apply the 1/e rule
exactly. Compare success rates across the room, then debrief on where the
rule matched intuition and where it didn’t.
The gap between your round-one strategy and the optimal rule is the actual
content of the week — not the rule by itself, but what your intuition was
missing that the rule accounts for.