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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
oversample .
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Examples
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I find it hard to imagine a more oversampled, overstudied subgroup white kids in cities. “self-satisfied hipster gibberish.”
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It sure seems like Dems were oversampled in this poll or the republicans have morphed into independents.
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In short the groups that support Obama are undersampled and those less likely to support Obama or participate in voting at that high of percentage are oversampled.
Poll: National Race Tightening; McCain's Advantage On Leadership Holding Firm 2009
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"In addition, we oversampled African-Americans in order to get a more reliable cross-tab on many of the questions we asked in this poll regarding Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race and overall response to last week's Rev. Jeremiah Wright dustup"
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They oversampled really really really old people, and as you pointed out, white people were oversampled too, but specifically, old white people were oversampled.
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As Josh noted last night, many of you readers have been writing in to say that the new NBC/WSJ poll oversampled African Americans in measuring voter reaction to the Wright controversy.
Pollster: We Did Not Over-Represent African Americans In Asking About Wright 2009
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Oh, and of course they adjust the results to reflect the fact that they oversampled.
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And like what Ogliberal said, this poll oversampled Democrats by 14%!
Poll: Obama's Core Groups Launch Him To Six-Point Lead Over McCain 2009
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We always knew the old fart vote was gonna be cornered by Grandpa Simpson, and there's little doubt that they have been oversampled in virtually every poll this year.
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In addition, we oversampled African-Americans in order to get a more reliable cross-tab on many of the questions we asked in this poll regarding Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race and overall response to last week's Rev. Jeremiah Wright dustup.
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