1. Thus, Schelling suggests that "[t]he 'coordination' of expectations [in explicit bargaining] is analogous to the 'coordination' of behavior when communication is cut off; and, in fact, they both involve nothing more nor less than intuitively perceived mutual expectations;See SCHELLING
2. There is evidence that the influence of focal points is powerfully present even in explicit bargaining scenarios. In bargains that involve numerical magnitudes, for example, there seems to be a strong magnetism in mathematical simplicity. More impressive, perhaps, is the frequency with which long negotiations over complicated quantitative formulas converge ultimately on something as crudely simple as equal shares or shares proportionate to some common magnitude;See;SCHELLING