District Compactness isn't a panacea. And I'm pessimistic that metrics will help us draw fairer districts. https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2015/5/12/1384062/-Compactness-is-a-terrible-standard-for-redistricting-and-determining-if-maps-were-gerrymandered …
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Maybe my pessimism is that nobody in power has an incentive to make districts that balance geography with fair popular vote representation
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And as a side note, I do think census blocks are too small to use when optimizing for compactness
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@timgulden and I had a long discussion about this. The problem is thornier that it first seems. There are a lot of criteria to consider. 1/ -
Do you optimize for compactness? Competitiveness? Protecting minorities from being disenfranchised? The choice of metrics is everything. 2/
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They're all defensible metrics but they lead to very different results. 4/
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