[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay, I'm not sure I understand your analogy completely but I am gonna try
to apply some of it anyway. Wouldn't the analogy applied to the argument
be that those critics of the electoral college are saying that if you
choose to view the CT-scan or X-Ray though a computer program that
coarse-grains it, you will have more trouble seeing clearly?
It depends on what you want to see and how much "light" you have. If all you
want to
do is distinghish two states (bush/gore), then course grained is better
because there is less chance of random error. If you want to distinghish
smaller "bits" of anatomy (or in this case the way individual states votes
you obviously need more spacial resolution (bush/gore in florida) but in
order to do this you need to up the signal (more votes in florida) or
accept that at the bush gore margin you will have blurriness and artifact
