overweighting
Giving disproportionate importance
Overweighting is giving something more importance or emphasis than it deserves, or more than other factors receive.
In finance, overweighting a stock or sector means allocating a larger percentage of a portfolio to it than a benchmark index would: The fund is overweighting tech stocks.
In statistics and research, overweighting adjusts data to amplify certain responses: The poll overweighted rural voters.
Adding weight or cargo
- burdenOppressive weight or duty
- strainExcessive stretching force
- excessSurplus beyond need
- cargoTransported goods
capacity · imbalance · distribution · heavy · uneven · balance · load-bearing · structural
Stress given to something
- importanceState of mattering
- prioritizingOrdering by importance
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- salienceState of standing out
attention · focus · judgment · decision-making · heuristic · recency · anchoring · perception
Collected works or assets
- allocationDistribution of shares
- assetItem of value owned
- equitiesOwnership stakes in corporations
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
bonds · benchmark · index · exposure · tilt · sector · rebalancing · holdings
Unfair inclination or prejudice
- samplingExtracting subset for study
- dataFacts for analysis
- skewTwist from straight
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
correction · survey · respondents · stratification · estimation · methodology · representation · calibration
loading
Adding weight or cargo
cargo · capacity · imbalance · distribution · heavy · uneven · balance · load-bearing · structural · stress
emphasis
Stress given to something
- importanceState of mattering
- prioritizingOrdering by importance
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
salience · attention · focus · judgment · decision-making · heuristic · recency · anchoring · perception · significance
portfolio
Collected works or assets
- allocationDistribution of shares
- assetItem of value owned
- equitiesOwnership stakes in corporations
stocks · bonds · benchmark · index · exposure · tilt · sector · rebalancing · holdings · securities
bias
Unfair inclination or prejudice
adjustment · correction · survey · respondents · stratification · estimation · methodology · representation · calibration · demographic
overweightingunderweighting
Allocating insufficient emphasis
undervaluing · de-emphasizing · underemphasizing · discounting · underestimating
weight, weigh, weighty, overweight, weighed, weighing, weighted, weighs, weightless