Sentences with phrase «efficiency gap»

While, fresh but scaling startups tend to drag their feet until they see clear evidence of issues, prolonging upgrading may cause unnecessary and costly headaches like missed billing opportunities, inventory write - offs, efficiency gaps in operations or even fraud.

Stephanopoulos and McGhee computed efficiency gaps for four decades of congressional and state House races starting in 1972, finding that the pro-Republican maps enacted after the 2010 Census resulted in «the most extreme gerrymanders in modern history.»

Sir Roy Mcnulty's recent report identified a 34 % efficiency gap between Network Rail and the best European operators.

The search marketing software and services provider found that this efficiency gap results in dozens, if not hundreds, of lost leads and increased costs for small businesses.

The efficiency gap, as explained in Stephanopoulos and McGhee (2015), measures Gerrymandering using the notion of wasted votes (see a quick overview at How the Efficiency Gap Works (PDF)-RRB-.

I've been having trouble finding an authoritative definition of the efficiency gap when more than 2 parties are involved.

The case relies in part on the idea of an «efficiency gap» — that the number of districts a party holds varies widely from the percentage of the total vote the party received, an argument he rejects.

He has developed what he calls an «efficiency gap», which measures a state's wasted votes: all those cast for a losing candidate in each district, and all those for the victor in excess of the proportion needed to win.

In the Wisconsin case Whitford v. Gill, federal judges used the efficiency gap to rule that the state's voting districts represented an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

I'd struggle to recommend the Eco over its Tucson brethren even if the efficiency gap was two or three times what it actually is, because the refinement gulf is genuinely aggravating.

This outcome — that consumers do not appear to want to pay up front for the full value of energy savings over the life of more efficient technologies — is often referred to as the fuel - efficiency gap.

The three - judge federal district court panel relied heavily on a mathematics - based test for undue partisanship in such plans called the «efficiency gap.»

Social scientists have been looking for a magic formula to discern unfair partisanship for decades and Justice Alito doesn't think the Efficiency Gap analysis, identified just three years ago, and the partial basis for challenging the Wisconsin gerrymander, is sufficiently tested and examined for it to be the predicate for a Constitutional challenge.

(Here's an explanation of the Efficiency Gap which, as attorney Smith pointed out, isn't as complicated as some would characterize it.)