Most machiavellian players exploit situations far better than chance

Evidence

The finding of interest from this work for the argument here is that the most machiavellian of the players were most able to exploit the situation to their greatest advantage, and do much better than chance would predict when the situation was most ambiguous. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 590

Categorization

• XREF: The unscrupulous exploiting ambiguity aligns with who seizes power once blindness destroys mutual monitoring in Saramago.