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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">Special Topics Course: Fall 2022</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">Statistics and Philosophy of Voting</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">STAT 498</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">Credits: 3</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">Time: Tuesday and Thursday 3:00-3:50pm, SMI 105</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">This course will consider topics relevant to modern voting and elections through statistical and social choice lenses. The course will be co-taught by Marina Meila (Statistics), Elena Erosheva
(Statistics and Social Work), Conor Mayo-Wilson (Philosophy), and will also feature a number of expert guest speakers.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">Topics include the purpose and limits of democratic decision-making; majority rule, social choice theory and the associated impossibility theorems; judgement aggregation; probabilistic pooling;
majority judgement and other voting procedures; election case studies; election polling and forecasting; misinformation and elections; electoral redistricting and gerrymandering; fairness aspects in voting, voting in contexts other than elections. Topics before
and around November 8 will be chosen to be directly related to the 2022 US election. See this link for more information.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">https://sites.stat.washington.edu/mmp/courses/voting498/fall22/syllabus.html</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">Course assessments will include participation in class and in discussion boards and hands-on homework assignments that will involve analyzing real or simulated data. Final grades will be based
on participation (40%) homework (60%).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">The course will be taught jointly with CSSS 594.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">Prerequisites</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">* STAT 311 or STAT 390 or STAT 391 or CSE 312</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"American Typewriter", serif;margin:0px">* It is recommended that students have some familiarity with reading and writing proofs and have beginner ability with data programming (at the level of STAT 302, or STAT/CSE/INFO 180)</span></p>
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