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?
• Segregation: How does segregation happen?
• 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?
• Hierarchical Modeling: A visual, intuitive explanation for what hierarchical modeling is.
• Scientific Progress: What is “scientific progress”?
• Survivorship Bias: Want to drop out of college and start a new company like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg? No.

Writing

• Writing Center: I cannot stress enough how much your essay writing will benefit from consulting the Writing Center.
• Citation Style Guide

Programming

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