Example Sentences

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The regulator said it would like more assurance that the ONS has sufficient steps in place to regularly review and improve sample design and representativeness, bias, survey methodology, and imputation.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

The advantages of telephone surveys have dwindled over time, as declining response rates increased the costs and probably undermined the representativeness of phone polls.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2024

One heuristic is representativeness: the assumption that if something is like something else in one way, it will be like that thing in every way.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

A review focused on showy, high-profile papers is not going to be reflective of science at large—a failure of the norm of representativeness.

From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2021

Some indication of the representativeness of the years 1300 and 1397 is given by a comparison of prices for these years with the average prices of the period in which they lie.

From The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction by Bradley, Harriett