Warren said that I haven't defined bias. Well, I've repeatedly said that a good starting definitioin of bias is that which, in PR, would give small parties incentive to coalesce, or large parties incentive to split, in order to maximize their s/q.
Someone with nothing better to do might quibble with "that which". Warren claims he doesn't know what s and q mean, though those letters are widely used in apportionment discussion to stand for seats and quotas. I've said much else about bias too, about the sense in which it can be gotten rid of. I don't have time to repeat all that for Warren. Only a pretentious pompous ass would believe that I spoke of a uniform frequency distribution over an infinite range of positive and negative state populations. Plainly I was refering to the distribution over the range in which apportionment actually takes place. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Get live scores and news about your team: Add the Live.com Football Page www.live.com/?addtemplate=football&icid=T001MSN30A0701 ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info