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.


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5 responses to “What do polls and neuroscience have in common?”

  1. Ed Wittens Cat  Avatar
    Ed Wittens Cat

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

  2. 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?

    1. 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.

  3. Alan Cobo-Lewis  Avatar
    Alan Cobo-Lewis
  4. Nice Sam! Also nice shout out on self control in the Atlantic yesterday.

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