It should be emphasized that coordination is not a matter of guessing what the "average man" will do. One is not, in tacit coordination, trying to guess what another will do in an objective situation; one is trying to guess what the other will guess one's self to guess the other to guess, and so on ad infinitum.

DEFINE: Clarifies coordination as an iterative guessing process, not prediction of an average person's behavior.

Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, loc. 224