Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, and director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He develops methods and software for many areas of social science research, ranging from statistical theory to practical application. King’s work on inferring individual behavior from aggregate data on groups, and methods for achieving cross-cultural comparability in survey research has been used extensively in many practical contexts in academia, government, consulting, and private industry. He proposed the now widely accepted standard for fairness in legislative redistricting known as “partisan symmetry,” and the methods used by courts and parties to detect when partisan gerrymandering violates it. He co-authored “Designing Social Inquiry,” and authored “Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference.”
