Math Exposition on YouTube
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Math Exposition on YouTube
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#2Funny thing is, I would've thought "Why You Want Voting Districts To Be Ugly" is the better title, but I guess they're the experts. Something about the "4% pretty" statistic is unfamiliar enough to me to not make me want to click on the video. Maybe this is a super niche concern, though - I can easily imagine their version getting more clicks precisely because it's more novel.
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#3This is a great explanation of why districts themselves are bad. We need proportional representation with either no districts at all or large multi-member districts.
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#4these summer of math expositions are awesome, i love seeing these videos pop up en masse once a year.
i've got nothing to do with anything related to math but i really want to find a niche topic to delve into detail just to join in the sharing.
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#5The video had me until the punchy end.
The visual walkthrough of their proof was elegant in its exposition.
I understand the humor makes it more fun to work on and self effacing, but you hooked me with this novel tool to analyze political districts, and rather than process all of them and report on the findings, it was merely used to “own the libs”?
Are all the claims of gerrymandering false based on this metric?
What happens when you change the 40% for the minority metric?
I guess I discovered I would rather dwell on the abstraction of “arbitrarily extreme constants”.
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#6This is a great explanation of why districts themselves are bad. We need proportional representation with either no districts at all or large multi-member districts.
I'm not sure districts are inherently bad. The concept that people living in the same geographic area will have similar concerns that need to be addressed makes sense to me.
I think my preference would be districts defined by geographic features and boundaries paired with a different set of elected officials determined by the type of proportional representation without any limits on geographic boundaries.
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#7I am mildly color blind, and all the orange and green voters in the grid look pretty much the same to me.
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#8This is a great explanation of why districts themselves are bad. We need proportional representation with either no districts at all or large multi-member districts.
I'm not sure districts are inherently bad. The concept that people living in the same geographic area will have similar concerns that need to be addressed makes sense to me. I think my preference would be districts defined by geographic features and boundaries paired with a different set of elected officials determined by the type of proportional representation without any limits on geographic boundaries.
> I'm not sure districts are inherently bad. The concept that people living in the same geographic area will have similar concerns that need to be addressed makes sense to me.
Yes, it would make much more sense to define the districts by any of various obvious methods and then not worry about whether they have equal population.
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#9This is a great explanation of why districts themselves are bad. We need proportional representation with either no districts at all or large multi-member districts.
Proportional representation has problems too. There is no perfect system.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure districts are inherently bad. The concept that people living in the same geographic area will have similar concerns that need to be addressed makes sense to me. I think my preference would be districts defined by geographic features and boundaries paired with a different set of elected officials determined by the type of proportional representation without any limits on geographic boundaries.
> I'm not sure districts are inherently bad. The concept that people living in the same geographic area will have similar concerns that need to be addressed makes sense to me. Yes, it would make much more sense to define the districts by any of various obvious methods and then not worry about whether they have equal population.
but the point as i understand it is that then in most districts the minorities will never get a chance to elect representatives that favor them because they get outvoted by the majority.
but it bothers me that the solution to this problem is to redraw voting districts. and for a while i could not figure out why or what to do about it, but then i wondered, why not simply have multiple representatives for each district. say a dozen or so. that way there is enough room for each minority to be proportionally represented by candidates of their choice.
to make it more interesting, give each voter more than one vote, up to the number of representatives. then you add up all the votes and pick the top 12.
make the districts larger or add a second layer of voting to keep the total numbers of elected representatives down. with a second layer all elected would again elect a smaller number amongst themselves again allowing minorities to be represented.