3 years of work and worth it, our new paper: Districting that minimizes partisan bias in @HSScomms

Would political scientists please share like @JasonReifler? I'm not connected to many and I'm really keen on making elections more fair.

Full text: psyarxiv.com/qfczy

1/n My older brother @aarbrk is still a mythical figure to me. In childhood he was smarter and better at everything, and now ... I am better at ping pong? Anyway, after dressing up as a capacitor he became a computer scientist and it's such a pleasure to write a paper together.

📣📣 A very fun and rewarding project is coming out. It's being cited already and Perspectives has a backlog, so here's the skinny.

Our theory paper is about the pervasive tendency to assume that psychological concepts are real and discovered.

psyarxiv.com/eqma4/

1/n Humans effortlessly categorize. Some concepts have referents in the real world (a tree), and some do not (justice). What about a 'face'?

Because most psych theories are verbal and informal, psych science is particularly vulnerable to how people think about and label categories.