My Main Methodologies I often describe myself as a reluctant quantitative researcher. Math was never my strong suit in high school nor undergrad. However, while getting my masters, I quickly realized that with my policy interests there was no way around quantitative methods--I had to go through them. Working with some great professors, I slow-fed myself the foundational levels of statistics and calculus until I mastered them. I started to make my weakness a strength. Then something miraculous happened: Read