unrepresentativeness
Missing data from some schools unfortunately distorted the representativeness of the sample.
One theme of the discussion was the notion of representativeness and the need for union officials to reflect the makeup and characteristics of the workers they served.
He argued that the exclusion of non-citizens undermines the representativeness of the jury especially with regard to ethnicity.

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Examples of representativeness

representativeness
The low attrition rate (10 %) and high rate of direct follow-up support the representativeness of these findings to adult patients treated in an in-patient setting.
The sample size was then scaled back to 290,518 in 1986, within the same sampling frame and with care to maintain representativeness.
Most importantly, the analysis would need to be performed on a sample whose representativeness was higher than the one studied here.
But the databases used by the authors differ in terms of their design and representativeness, and these differences have considerable implications for the accounts possible.
No claims are made for the representativeness of the sample.
This restriction led to some imbalance in the sample's representativeness and the imbalance has been corrected by part-weighting.
Finally, the use of a school-based sample is less likely to include students with poor school attendance and somewhat limits the representativeness of the sample.
I also argued that, at least at the initial stages of investigation, social representativeness can be overlooked when choosing speakers to be investigated.
We also cannot exclude the possibility that there may be discrepancies in the representativeness of the corpora underlying our estimates.
Aside from the problem of representativeness and generalizability, the ' best utterance ' approach is subject to ceiling effects for children at the highest levels of functioning.
These people will make better judgments by representativeness than others, and may consequently achieve greater predictive accuracy than others - especially if everybody ignores base-rates.
In our view, any deficiencies as regards representativeness are more likely to lead to greater measurement error and therefore poorer relationships.
The lack of writing skills among women necessarily skews their social representativeness.
Similarly, transferability could be questioned when the representativeness of the sample was unclear.
Other factors that must be considered when constructing base lists are their representativeness of the domain and their correctness.
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