You too can be Elbridge Gerry (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Tuesday, 19 June 2007

You too can be Elbridge Gerry

Via Prof. Shugart: play the Redistricting Game. I smell an Intro to Politics assignment for the fall…

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1. Wesley wrote @ Tue, 19 Jun 2007, 11:21 pm CDT:

I was thinking the same thing. It is simple enough for intro students to learn, but has some surprisingly varied data in the later scenarios to really challenge them too. Especially if you give them tasks outside of the given scenarios.

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