Essays + academic work + data analysis
Writing
Selected academic work, a short personal essay, and data analysis, with publication and original production dates kept distinct. Additional personal writing continues on Substack.
Academic writing
- Self-Inflicted Pain as Error Correction in Childhood and AdolescenceAn August 2026 independent proposal defining self-administered punitive error correction and outlining a staged research program to test a nonpunitive learning intervention.
- Rhetorical Analysis: Comparing Opposing TextsA December 2025 analysis comparing how the Federalist Society and Amnesty International argue opposing positions on the death penalty.
- Social Justice through Financial LiteracyA May 2025 research essay arguing that financial education should include real accounts, practical experience, and an honest discussion of unequal access.
- The Effects of Attention Bias Modification on Aggression in Justice-Impacted Young AdultsA May 2026 student proposal for testing whether attention-bias modification could reduce hostile attention bias and aggression among justice-impacted young adults.
Personal essay
Data Analysis
- Campus safety, in proportionUC San Diego vehicle theft per enrolled student, alongside interactive crime and housing comparisons across 42 universities, with dated sources and reporting context.
- Heat and arrest recordsAn observational study of supplied San Diego-area arrest records, with corrected civil-day weather, sensitivity analyses, interactive aggregates, and a domestic-violence report.