Gregory Severin Flagpoll Statistics

*"'Likes: Eagles, Weapons, Crowns' is absolutely my next tinder bio"*

*--Gregory Severin*

**Gregory Severin** was one of seven voters during Flagpoll, and one of eleven during Flagpoll 2. A member of the Eagle Boys, he was noted for his love of birds and Balkan flags, as well as his stinginess with giving out high scores. However, each of these attributes decreased in the interim between Flagpolls.

## Statistics

**Mean Score:** 5.264

**Standard Deviation:** 1.820

**Average Error:** 0.895

**Model Adjusted R2:** 0.3319

**Projected top flag:** Moravia- 7.3 (3)

**Projected bottom flag:** New Mexico 1915-1925- 0.6 (1)

**Surprising High Vote:** Macedonia - 5.9 (10)

**Surprising Low Vote:** Moravia- 7.3 (3)

**Likes:** Eagles, Weapons, Crowns

**Dislikes:** Vertical Stripes, Cantons, Text

**Largest Outlier Votes (vote; average):**

* Tierra del Fuego (2; 5.7)
* Maryland (2; 5.4)
* Australia (2; 5.3)
* Canada (6; 9.3)
* Alsace (8; 4.7)

## Flagpoll 2 Statistics

Emoji tag: :geg:

Fun fact: Despite it being his biggest predictor in his first model, eagles were not a statistically significant variable for Greg in Flagpoll 2

Average score: 5.692

Standard deviation: 1.887

Average error: 1.056

Model R^2: 0.336

Projected top flag: Republic of Venice - 7.9 (9)

Projected bottom flag: New Mexico (old) - -0.5 (1)

Surprising high vote: Slovakia (6.0; 10)

Surprising low vote: Sardinia (5.7; 1)

Likes: Non-rectangular, Crowns, Weapons

Dislikes: Cantons, Text, Boats

Largest outlier votes (vote; average)

1. Venice (9; 4.4)
2. Peoria (2; 6.1)
3. Israel (3; 7.1)
4. Entre Rios (7; 3.3)
5. Zhytomyrskiy (7; 3.4)

## Eulogy

~~Gregorio Severino~~ G~~rigorije Severinović~~ ~~is 4 grigori~~ Gregory Severin is a Master of Public Policy student currently studying at the University of Michigan

He was born in Seattle, Washington, though he moved to Newton, Massachusetts at a young age and grew up there. This has given him the absolutely cursed sports fandom combination of Mariners/Patriots, as his family has (or has had) owned season tickets for both teams. Due to family connections to Michigan he also grew up rooting for the Wolverines in their NCAA endeavors, and now that certain friends have introduced him to the wonderful world of ice hockey he supports both the Kraken and the Bruins, and also inexplicably the Carolina Hurricanes

His Michigan connections led him to the state and the university, where he studied political science and history as an undergraduate. His honors thesis, entitled "A Void of Legitimacy: Ethnonationalist Rhetoric as a Political Tool", examined the use of ethnic nationalism as a means to manufacture national identity (and therefore national legitimacy) in fledgling nation-states following the breakup of Yugoslavia

It was also during Greg's time as a Michigan undergrad that he joined M-SABR. He first learned of the club when they followed him on Twitter his freshman year, and in a delicious twist of fate he ended up running that very Twitter account throughout his tenure. While at M-SABR he wore many hats, and he also took on many responsibilities! These included Staff Editor, Editor-in-Chief for a brief time, and Resident Mariners Expert. He also made several amazing friends from M-SABR and M-SABR-related activities, including you, yes you

Greg spent this summer living in Brussels, where he participated in a transatlantic exchange internship with the European People's Party Group of the European Parliament. He got this internship through his master's program, in which his main focuses are international public policy, European diplomacy, and (as always) Central and Eastern Europe

In addition to sports and European politics, he enjoys downtempo music, imported wine, cookin, and cinema. He actually enjoys the last one so much that he's currently TA'ing a class on Czech cinema, so if you have a few hours to waste ask him for some recs or his opinion on a movie/director/actor - it doesn't even have to be Czech! (you should ask about the Wachowskis, he loves talking about those clowns)

When he was in high school, his severely arachnophobic sister called him into her room to kill the biggest goddamn spider either of them had ever seen. A spider so obscenely large as this one deserved a warrior's death, and so to be sure it wouldn't come back he decided to drop the biggest book he could find on the fucker. Fortunately his sister had just finished a unit on Greek mythology, and wouldn't you know it but The Iliad was conveniently within arm's reach. The rest, as they say, is history. RIP spider, and RIP GragFleg

## Flag Results

### FlagVote 3

**Round 1:** BYE

**Round 2:** Win over (408) Lower Bavaria 6-5

**Round 3:** Win over (152) El Hierro 6-5

**Round 4:** Loss to (24) Cuba 8-3

## Gallery

Greg's voting distribution FP1, the "ski slope"Greg's model outputsGreg's voting distribution FP2