Back in the spring of 2008 and again in 2009 I taught an undergraduate seminar at NYU in which twenty terrific students in each class used my new forecasting model. This was a great opportunity for me (as well as, I hope, for my students) to find out how hard or easy it is to teach people with no prior experience how to become effective political engineers. Fortunately, my students were willing guinea pigs, and they did a great job.
