| 词汇 | unrepresentative |
| 释义 | unrepresentative adjective uk /ˌʌn.rep.rɪˈzen.tə.tɪv/ us /ˌʌn.rep.rɪˈzen.ə.t̬ɪv/ not typical of a larger group of people or things; not representative无代表性的，不典型的 Different and difference altered alternative anomalous another anything disjunctive disparate disparately disparity dissimilar make a distinction between something make the differenceidiom misc. misfit new unrecognizably unreflective unrepresentativeness unstandardized untraditional Examples of unrepresentativeunrepresentative It was decided that excluding youngsters with any history of disorder would create an unrepresentative sample. It seemed possible that restricting the study to children who never committed case errors led to an unrepresentative sample of children. Most studies to date have modelled the cost of care from small or unrepresentative samples. Inconclusive studies covered diverse interventions and were characterised by poor reporting, weak study design, high attrition rates, and small or unrepresentative samples. These predominantly involved children and young adults - a very unrepresentative sample. Interviewees are likely to be unusually confident, and unrepresentative, though they may include severely impaired people. During the establishment of these populations, bottlenecks and the effects of genetic drift may result in unrepresentative genotypic distributions and loss of variation. Although the four well-studied cetacean species are socially diverse, they are likely to be unrepresentative of all cetaceans. How could they decide that the distribution of power in campaign finance was unrepresentative of the distribution of power among groups in the society generally? Second, if the data that are used are unrepresentative of the target language, it may not help with prediction. Selective attrition can produce changes in the subject pool so that it inadvertently becomes unrepresentative of the subjects originally entered into the study. This methodology avoids the problems incurred by a chronological sample, which could have resulted in unrepresentative years and thus misleading analysis. Therefore, although the results were consistent and showed a theory-driven pattern of relationships, the studied sample may have been in some way atypical or unrepresentative. It was a qualitative study with a small, unrepresentative sample. The results of these studies may reflect the selection of unrepresentative sample populations. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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