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Decisions are made specifically to over-represent whiteness and hide non-whiteness, because of the assumption that:
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The thing is, I wouldn't really mind if at least some of this time was devoted to verifying the credentials of the people that get hired, as it's too easy for some candidates to inflate -- if not grossly over-represent -- their academic record or work history.
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The correct phrasing should be, “What the Senate does is over-represent certain arbitrary places” as state boundaries were arbitrarily set.
Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010
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Was it the original intent of the framers to not just over-represent small states and thus minorities, but to over-over-represent them by giving them a right of veto too unless they have less than 40 votes?
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And search marketers tend to over-represent larger advertisers and under-represent the many smaller businesses that use search as a marketing tool, so their reports are far from definitive.
Data Points on Google’s Growth - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And search marketers tend to over-represent larger advertisers and under-represent the many smaller businesses that use search as a marketing tool, so their reports are far from definitive.
Data Points on Google’s Growth - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The allocation of delegates is also skewed in a way that seems to over-represent the at-large caucuses, by treating each of them as if they were a separate county.
Nevada Teachers' Union Sues To Stop Workers Caucusing On Las Vegas Strip 2009
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I rounded everything off to the next highest whole number except for the two percentages in the lower right-hand cells, where doing so would greatly over-represent the percent of farms of that size.
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The upheavals of the 1960s were deeply felt and often widespread, but I do think people over-represent the anti-LBJ and antiwar attitudes of the time period.
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So we should expect the media in general to over-represent conservative viewpoints.
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