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Flaws in the Efficiency Gap

2019· article· en· W2783193916 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicEconomic Policies and Impacts
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMeasure (data warehouse)Polarization (electrochemistry)EconomicsOutcome (game theory)Gap analysis (conservation)PoliticsEconometricsMicroeconomicsComputer sciencePolitical scienceLawData mining
DOInot available

Abstract

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Gerrymandering is returning to the Supreme Court. 1 For the first time in three decades, a federal court invalidated redistricting legislation on the grounds that it constituted a partisan gerrymander in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. 2That court relied, in part, on a new tool-the efficiency gap-which some have touted as the means to "end gerrymandering once and for all." 3 We evaluate this tool and find it wanting.The efficiency gap is neither a cure to the malady of partisan gerrymandering nor even a good idea.Its use by courts may worsen the problem they seek to solve.The foundation for partisan gerrymandering claims is the 1986 case of Davis v. Bandemer, 4 in which a fractured Supreme Court held that partisan gerrymandering is justiciable as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it is an attempt to weaken the voting power of a disfavored political party.The ruling has been repeated in every Supreme Court case on partisan gerrymandering since, despite a minority view that partisan gerrymandering should be held to be a political question. 5However, while these cases have opened the door to challenges, neither Bandemer nor any of the subsequent cases rejected any districting laws as constituting an illegal partisan gerrymander.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.824
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.038

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.202
Teacher spread0.177 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it