Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of polls has focused solely on their…
Gregory Leslie, 2022-2023 Joint Fellow, CSDP and Politics, Princeton University
The Racial Frontier: Biracials, Machine Learning, and the Future of Racial Group Boundaries
The Kahneman-Treisman Center is pleased to announce the next session in its new lunchtime seminar series presenting works in progress by Center Affiliates, on Thursday, November 17, at noon with Sugarman Practitioner in Residence Kristine De Jesus.
Environmental justice communities, those disproportionately affected by pollutants, are simultaneously exposed to multiple environmental stressors and also experience social and cultural factors that may heighten their health risks in comparison to other communities. Availability of fine-grained, community-level data is limited…
During World War II, the Army hired women to hand-calculate ballistics trajectories for artillery firing tables. But these differential calculus equations took over 2 dozen hours by hand, and the Army needed thousands of them. In an attempt to speed up the calculations, the Army agreed to fund the creation of a truly…
Carles Boix, Robert Garrett Professor in Politics and Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University
The Value of Democracy
Andreu Arenas (University of Barcelona & Princeton University), Alícia Adserà (Princeton University) and Carles Boix (Princeton University)
