According to some of the most prominent scholars in the field, the answer is yes.

Earlier this year, Nick Stephanopoulos, Eric McGhee, and Chris Warshaw published a n essay in the Washington Post which showed that after the 2020 round of redistricting, the net effect of state gerrymanders on the House was relatively low. Their study concluded that the House in 2024 had a 7 seat bias in favor of the Democrats.

This work is based on using the efficiency gap as a measure of partisan gerrymandering, which is also a principal basis that the widely-used Plan Score site uses to assess the degree of gerrymandering in a state map. My sense is that journalists rely heavily on Plan Score for information about gerrymandering.

My own view is that the efficiency gap, while convenient, is not the

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