unrepresentativeness
Sample bias problem
Unrepresentativeness is the quality of failing to accurately reflect a larger whole.
A sample drawn from a population may suffer from unrepresentativeness if it skews toward certain characteristics: The survey's unrepresentativeness undermined its conclusions.
The term appears most often in statistical and research contexts, where representative sampling is essential to valid findings.
Relegation to powerless periphery
- underrepresentationInsufficient proportional presence
- omissionFailure to include
- invisibilityState of being unseen
- silencingStopping noise or dissent
tokenism · erasure · neglect · oversight · blindspot · gap · absence · voicelessness
Extracting subset for study
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- generalizationDeriving principles from examples
- surveySystematic data collection
skew · outlier · anomaly · extrapolation · error · discrepancy · deviation · variance
Overstating beyond reality
- skewTwist from straight
- warpBend from true form
- falsificationDeliberate alteration of truth
- mischaracterizationDescribing something inaccurately
caricature · oversimplification · spin · slant · manipulation · cherry-picking · selectivity · framing
Distant data point
- anomalyDeparture from the expected
- aberrationDeviation from the norm
- exceptionDeviation from standard
- deviationDeparture from expected path
peculiarity · irregularity · oddity · nonconformity · rarity · idiosyncrasy · singularity · uniqueness
Practical solving shortcut
- availabilityState of being obtainable
- anchoringFastening securely to position
- confirmationEstablishing something as true
- overconfidenceUnjustified certainty in oneself
judgment · stereotype · prejudice · misjudgment · perception · assumption · framing · selective
marginalization
Relegation to powerless periphery
- underrepresentationInsufficient proportional presence
- omissionFailure to include
- invisibilityState of being unseen
silencing · tokenism · erasure · neglect · oversight · blindspot · gap · absence · voicelessness · minority
sampling
Extracting subset for study
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- generalizationDeriving principles from examples
survey · skew · outlier · anomaly · extrapolation · error · discrepancy · deviation · variance · distortion
exaggeration
Overstating beyond reality
- skewTwist from straight
- warpBend from true form
- falsificationDeliberate alteration of truth
mischaracterization · caricature · oversimplification · spin · slant · manipulation · cherry-picking · selectivity · framing · agenda
outlier
Distant data point
- anomalyDeparture from the expected
- aberrationDeviation from the norm
- exceptionDeviation from standard
deviation · peculiarity · irregularity · oddity · nonconformity · rarity · idiosyncrasy · singularity · uniqueness · divergence
heuristic
Practical solving shortcut
- availabilityState of being obtainable
- anchoringFastening securely to position
- confirmationEstablishing something as true
overconfidence · judgment · stereotype · prejudice · misjudgment · perception · assumption · framing · selective · recall
unrepresentativenessrepresentativeness
Quality of being typical
typicality · generalizability · random sampling · proportionality · accuracy
unrepresentativenesstypicality
Conformity to standard patterns
exemplariness · representativeness · typicalness · averageness · ordinariness
represent, represents, represented, representing, representation, representations, representative, representatives, representativeness