muon2
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« on: November 12, 2013, 11:33:56 PM » |
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The listed compactness measures have inherent biases with certain types of districts. Measures that compare perimeter to area do poorly with wiggly natural boundaries like coastlines and rivers. Measures that compare district area to the area of a regular shape like a circle do better with natural features but fail with intrinsic shapes like the WV panhandles. They also don't catch districts that are gerrymandered with a cut out area since they can mimic natural boundary shapes.
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