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JER-eem-and-uh/ˈdʒerimændə/

To gerrymander is to draw electoral or other boundaries so as to favour one side: gerrymander the map, a gerrymandered n. Boundary (already in the dictionary) is the everyday line; dropping a slice without a codebook note is still a methods cut, not clarity.

Meaning

To draw electoral or other boundaries so as to favour one side (from boundary, already in the dictionary).

Examples

• “To drop the night slice without a codebook note is to gerrymander the n, not “clarity”.”
• “Rig is everyday and cruder. Manipulate is the close twin. Clarity is a slogan. A named exclusion is methods. Write the rule; then call it clarity in the limitations if the ethics file still allows the cut.”

Good to know

Draw boundaries to favour one side. Everyday: rig. “Clarity” ≠ a named exclusion.

Near in meaning

manipulate, rig, distort

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