October 24, 2008
An Accidental Political Scientist
Andrew Gelman followed an unusual path into political science. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1980s, he majored in physics and mathematics. He wanted to write his undergraduate thesis on solid-state physics but couldn't talk his way into any of the relevant campus labs. "So I made a list of all the faculty who advised students," he recalls. "And one of them had done work on game theory, which sounded interesting. He gave me a book on the evolution of
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