redscarfdemon

redscarfdemon t1_j5pf13v wrote

patch and change/delete.

it's like if i had a book you wrote and you wanted to make some revisions to my copy. you could print the entire book and give it me a new one (redownload the entire 500MB), or you could just say "hey on page 30, remove the second paragraph, please add this image to the index, and on page 36 there is a typo change that one word" (patch just 100MB)

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redscarfdemon t1_j39wk2m wrote

I'm not sure what this is trying to say. What do the bars represent? At first I thought it was a proportion but Montana doesn't go to one. KY/AK the middle states which have the line of 32.5% (the number that matches with your Y axis) seem to be 3 or 4 times the size of Delaware, not 32.5%x.

I understand that states are given representatives at a ratio of one rep per appx. 750k people. No state is able to be exactly divided into 750k people, so some states are going to be slightly over and slightly under that number. Couldn't the variance be ascribed to random chance?

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