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Splitting California would lessen the unrepresentativeness of the Senate.
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Speaking of the unrepresentativeness of the influential, in the Atlantic 50″ of most influential pundits (including Matt), white Jewish men are over-represented by a ratio of about 50 to 1 versus the rest of the population.
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Splitting California would lessen the unrepresentativeness of the Senate.
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On this and other questions, careful scrutiny of AmericaSpeaks 'methods is called for, including the unrepresentativeness of their participants and the biases in information presented and options discussed.
Lawrence Jacobs: Deficits, Social Security, and the American Public 2010
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On this and other questions, careful scrutiny of AmericaSpeaks 'methods is called for, including the unrepresentativeness of their participants and the biases in information presented and options discussed.
Lawrence Jacobs: Deficits, Social Security, and the American Public Lawrence Jacobs 2010
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But the problems with the Gang of Six go far beyond the sheer demographic unrepresentativeness.
Jerome Karabel: Who Are These People Anyway? The Gang of Six and the Politics of Health Care Reform 2009
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Surely in a nation that prides itself as having a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," the stunning unrepresentativeness of the six Senators poses grave problems for democratic legitimacy.
Jerome Karabel: Who Are These People Anyway? The Gang of Six and the Politics of Health Care Reform 2009
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Once we have access to ecological fitness differences, we can, at least in principle, decide whether the divergence from predicted long-run relative frequencies, especially where small populations are concerned, is a matter of drift or reflects our ignorance either of ecological fitness differences or the unrepresentativeness of the initial conditions of individual births, deaths, and reproductions.
Fitness Rosenberg, Alexander 2008
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Elizabeth: To my mind, the unrepresentativeness of Mullins is linked to the pornification topic.
What would that look like? Kay Olson 2007
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Reading from the statement, department official Mr Mondli Gungubele said the trust had been found to be a loosely-organised formation without clear lines of accountability, and that suspicions about its operations arose from its unrepresentativeness and lack of transparency.
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