Resources

Here, I provide links to the resources that might help coursework and research.

PoliSci stuff (very broadly)

• Prisoner’s dilemma: Why is “defection” a dominant strategy?
• Trust and game theory: How can we overcome the prisoner’s dilemma?
• Zipf’s law in natural language: Which word appears most frequently and why?
• WEIRD: Are we all “weird”?
• Social contract: How do we escape “the state of nature”?
• Moral foundations: Where does morality come from?
• Trolly problem: Also, this.
• Utilitarianism: How should we maximize social welfare?
• Theorizing: How did scholars come up with a theory?
• Scientific progress: What is “scientific progress”?
• Survivorship bias: Do you want to drop out of college and become a billionaire? No.
• Democratic peace: Is it true that democracies do not make war on each other?

Writing

• Writing Center
• Citation Style Guide

Programming

• Basics of python
• Basics of R
• ggplot2 cheatsheet
• ggplot2 colors