What do polls and neuroscience have in common?

Find out in a profile published yesterday on the University’s homepage. Bonus: it may be the only time you will ever find the cerebellum and gerrymandering mentioned in the same article.

Tags: 2014 Election

Ed Wittens Cat // Aug 16, 2016 at 11:31 am

pardon, but its order *IN* chaos
my thesis is that all types of chaos have underlying structure
but that is still brilliant :)

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Joseph // Aug 16, 2016 at 11:32 am

Great article!

So it did spark a question in my mind: Since you’ve developed this tool to root out gerrymandering, have you actually determined what districts are in fact gerrymandered? Is there a list available somewhere?

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- Sam Wang // Aug 16, 2016 at 4:41 pm
  
  The tool identifies states that are, on a whole, gerrymandered to give political advantage. At that point, one just has to examine the district-by-district vote totals to see which districts have narrow victories, favoring the redistricting party if they did it right; and large victories, in districts where they packed their opponents. It will be obvious. Go run the code at gerrymander.princeton.edu and you will see.
Alan Cobo-Lewis // Aug 16, 2016 at 11:02 pm

I give you…the Gerrymonculus

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7D_l17lIar7SzBFUnJ5UjFtWEE/view?usp=sharing

You’re welcome

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Fb // Aug 17, 2016 at 5:32 pm

Nice Sam! Also nice shout out on self control in the Atlantic yesterday.

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