The Economics of Faking Orgasm - No, really

Slate - Steven E.�Landsburg: "He then turns from the Fourth Amendment to the Fifth, and the defendant's right to remain silent during a trial. The Fifth Amendment increases the number of wrongful acquittals (which is bad) and reduces the number of wrongful convictions (which is good). Is that bad or good on net? I addressed this question once before in Slate, where I pointed out that lawyers are wont to say asinine things like, "It is better to let 10 guilty men go free than to convict one who's innocent," as if a sufficiently bold statement obviates any need for a supporting analysis

It's not clear whether it's the woman who overestimates her acting ability or the man who overestimates his perceptiveness. Be that as it may, Mialon uses game theory to investigate why women (sometimes) fake and why men (sometimes) doubt them. I'm not sure I buy all his assumptions, but he makes a reasonable first pass at the problem."