Re: Population paradox

[Joseph Malkevitch]

Dear Olli,

Although Balinski and Young support Webster over Huntington-Hill it seems that there are other points of view in trying to see which of these methods is "fairer," even with regard to the matter of bias over time with respect to small and large states. After all, the constitution has a bias in favor of "small states" by giving each of these states one seat. One might try to sort out the bias due to the constitution vs. the bias due to the method.

Best,

Joe


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Joseph Malkevitch
Department of Mathematics
York College (CUNY)
Jamaica, New York 11451


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Web page: http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk

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