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Gerrymandering metrics: How to measure? What's the baseline?

Physics and Society 2018-01-09 v1

Abstract

This note outlines three intellectually distinct but not mutually exclusive strategies for measuring partisan gerrymandering: partisan symmetry, efficiency gap, and algorithmic sampling.

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@article{arxiv.1801.02064,
  title  = {Gerrymandering metrics: How to measure? What's the baseline?},
  author = {Moon Duchin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02064},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Based on remarks presented at the 2062nd stated meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences