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Here's what bias means to most people: A method is large-biased if the largest states have more s/q than the smallest states. Imprecise, but it can be improved if we specify that we're talking about a hypothetical country with arbitrarily many states. "Large states" means an arbitrarily large number of states at the top end. Small states likewise defined. With so many states in "large states", local-positioning-caused s/q disparity, caused by different states being in dilfferent parts of their cycles, averages out and cancels out. We're left with the disparity in the cycles' average s/q. My methods transparently make cycles' average s/q equal, as nearly as possible. Mike Ossipoff ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
