So much relevant expertise in political science. This would be so much better as a team project that included them.https://twitter.com/GovernorTomWolf/status/962060492175900674 …
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Realize my point is not that a mathematician should not be involved. It is that such a politically complex problem requires far more diversity of expertise & polisci expertise is essential (see work of Scott Page on this pt: https://aeon.co/ideas/why-hiring-the-best-people-produces-the-least-creative-results …)
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This is a fun article, and there's interesting truth to it. But I wish it engaged seriously with the other viewpoint. Is there ever a good time to turn down a von Neumann for your math-focused venture? Einstein for a physics venture? Etc.
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If the answer is just "You get experts whose domain expertise is more appropriate [than Einstein etc] for the particular problem under consideration" then the article becomes true but obvious and uninteresting.
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The likelihood that you will get someone who understands the math _and_ the institutional politics _and_ the local specificities of Pennsylvania politics is obviously very low. Genius travels - but nearly always within a specific ambit and with a specific bag of tricks.
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Like all such work, Scott’s depends on modeling assumptions (which are changing in interesting ways in most recent work). But it seems to me that this is just the kind of problem where Scott’s approach has a strong presumptive case in its favor.
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