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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overcount .
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Examples
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The other strategy for urban census "overcounts" is to give inner cities and their minorities more state legislators and congressmen than they are entitled to.
ModerateVoters.org 2009
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Although the bulk of this year's work is over, it will continue until early September in an effort to minimize undercounts and overcounts.
Some College Park, Md., residents still waiting for census to count them 2010
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Although the bulk of this year's work is over, it will continue until early September in an effort to minimize undercounts and overcounts.
Some College Park, Md., residents still waiting for census to count them 2010
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R2K probably overcounts the Dem advantage at +9 but they've stuck with that spread since they started.
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The pledged delegate count is not a more democratic measure than using the popular vote because it overcounts certain congressional districts rather using the idea of "one person, one vote."
Hillary Adviser Terry McAuliffe: It's The Popular Vote, Stupid! 2009
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The trail of manipulation of votes (and I am not talking about Florida) is there and it's not overcounts but undercounts.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Both times are too early, with opposite biases: 5pm gets the min right, but overcounts the high maxes, while 7am gets the maxes right, but overcounts the cold mins.
TOBS « Climate Audit 2007
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“But the reason is far from nefarious: a design flaw in how SiteMeter counts visits that systemically overcounts unique visitors on extremely high traffic blogs like Daily Kos … by a lot.”
Daily Digest: 10/3/07 Levy, Joshua 2007
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“But the reason is far from nefarious: a design flaw in how SiteMeter counts visits that systemically overcounts unique visitors on extremely high traffic blogs like Daily Kos … by a lot.”
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This is a seperate issue from the identified flaw in the statistical analysis essentially a type of averaging/regression that overcounts certain features.
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