Sentences with phrase «as unrepresentative»

I hope that this attitude is as unrepresentative of readers of this journal as I suspect it is of the population at large.

Paul Keating once memorably dismissed the Senate as unrepresentative swill.

Having studied biblical theology in graduate school (part of the time under a conservative Rabbi) and currently studying theology at the Pontificia Universita Gregorian in Rome as a seminarian, I regard Meir Soloveichik's biblical theology as unrepresentative of what the Hebrew Scriptures teach.

Not exact matches

Long before they were rocked this month by local police killings of black men, the two U.S. cities were grappling with similar problems — police forces viewed by many as overly aggressive and unrepresentative of black communities.

Arguments from Treasury Wine Estates proponents such as Willibald Hajszan («Treasury Wines class action unrepresentative», AFR Letters, July 7), fail to acknowledge several issues in trying to discredit the current securities class action on foot against the global wine giant.

Another way of looking at it is as an opinion poll using an unrepresentative sample, as the sample only includes people who place bets.

I could say about this finding - as well as the main finding of no differences between singles and couples in attachment issues - that the sample was unrepresentative (the singles were recruited by newspaper ads and the couples were recommended by the singles) and so we need to be cautious.

The participating hospitals came from a wide range of types and locations, so there is no reason to suppose that the results are unrepresentative of the region as a whole.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

Those within the left of the Labour Party are attempted to be linked to unrepresentative elements that clearly, would be universally condemned as having no place within our movement.

As well as pinpointing unrepresentative samples as the most viable explanation, the panel took the time to emphasise the factors that did not contribute to the erroAs well as pinpointing unrepresentative samples as the most viable explanation, the panel took the time to emphasise the factors that did not contribute to the erroas pinpointing unrepresentative samples as the most viable explanation, the panel took the time to emphasise the factors that did not contribute to the erroas the most viable explanation, the panel took the time to emphasise the factors that did not contribute to the error.

As Lord Ashcroft's polling suggests, firebrand union leaders are almost entirely unrepresentative of their members.

«Instead of being treated as unfortunate yet unavoidable road kill from the Top Two, we should be seen as canaries in the coal mine, warning of the deeply unrepresentative and undemocratic nature of our electoral system.»

An unfair system doesn't just give us an unfair result, but unrepresentative government as well.

«It's not necessarily Islam - sometimes it's our cultural sensitivities, our multiculturalist approach that says let's treat these people as separate blocs and let's listen to often unrepresentative bodies that pretend to represent them,» he told Today.

Nevertheless, being stuck out of power by an unrepresentative electoral system and an indifferent media establishment means many Lib Dem members secretly view stolen policies as satisfying evidence of political change emanating from the third party.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

(She dismissed the early log line, which had the two lead characters each seeking to lose her virginity, as being unrepresentative of Foner's script.

Instead, Tanne approaches these characters as people who are unrepresentative of anything or anyone other than themselves — in this moment and at this point in their lives.

«The purpose of a quorum is to prevent an unrepresentative group from taking action in the name of the organization,» says «Robert's Rules of Order» (as translated into plain English in the 19970 by Doris Zimmerman, a professionally registered parliamentarian).

State - level academic performance data are either nonexistent prior to 1990 or, as in the case of the SAT, are unrepresentative of statewide student populations.

Some of her concluding thoughts come across as causal relationships between x SDE action and y effect on school reform in z state, which is dangerous territory to tread when two nationally unrepresentative states served as the objects of study.

However, as Corcoran and Baker - Smith write, the incoming ninth grade population at the three oldest and largest schools, Stuyvesant, the Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical School, was wholly unrepresentative of the city at large — 22 percent were white, and 64 percent were Asian, while just 4 percent and 5 percent were African - American or Latino, respectively (Wong).

It is a trend that I'm noticing in my circle of friends and acquaintances as well (with the caveat that my sample set is likely too small, unrepresentative or both).

The autocorrelation of the «blade» segment of «hockey - stick» shaped proxies is significantly higher than the rest of the series, this biases their estimates of autocorrelation parameters because their model assumes a stationary autocorrelation structure, making their simulated series unrepresentative of most of the length of hockey - stick series, as can be seen in this graph of lag - 1 autocorrelation coefficients.

As Tol explains, the Cook et al paper used an unrepresentative sample, can't be replicated, and leaves out many useful papers.

If you found a blog devoted to a discussion of Bush's policy to invade Iraq, populated by an unrepresentative % of anarchists (as this «skeptic» boards are populated by an unrepresentative % of libertarians), and you opened up the comments section — would you not expect to find an unusually high % of conspiracy theorists?

Spots such as this often result in very pronounced «microclimates», which are quite unrepresentative of the actual climate of the surrounding area.

May is asking us to respect factoids and unrepresentative evidence dressed up as fact, yet he assures us that it is the oil companies that are «misinforming the public about the science of climate change».

As with the land / ocean bias, a problem arises when our sample contains unrepresentative proportions of different strata from the population, where the strata behave differently from one another.

This could leave huge cracks in the draft agreement, and it would return to the Geneva text (the only official text thus far) which was horrendously unbalanced and unrepresentative of the UNFCCC as a whole.

As the Australian blogger Joanne Nova summarised Tol's findings, John Cook of the University of Queensland and his team used an unrepresentative sample, left out much useful data, used biased observers who disagreed with the authors of the papers they were classifying nearly two - thirds of the time, and collected and analysed the data in such a way as to allow the authors to adjust their preliminary conclusions as they went along, a scientific no - no if ever there was onAs the Australian blogger Joanne Nova summarised Tol's findings, John Cook of the University of Queensland and his team used an unrepresentative sample, left out much useful data, used biased observers who disagreed with the authors of the papers they were classifying nearly two - thirds of the time, and collected and analysed the data in such a way as to allow the authors to adjust their preliminary conclusions as they went along, a scientific no - no if ever there was onas to allow the authors to adjust their preliminary conclusions as they went along, a scientific no - no if ever there was onas they went along, a scientific no - no if ever there was one.

However, Earth's systems never achieve LTE (much to the disbelief of Tom Vonk) and are always changing diurnally, thus, any model that employs LTE as a requirement must be unrepresentative for the purposes of an Earth system.

Due to the amount of time that you are allowed to preregister to take the test, I was studying the scanned versions of practice tests purchased from the University bookstore, before receiving all of the available HTML tests from LSAC, and as a result I had actually encountered one of the tests before receiving the HTML version, thus the problem of information exposure made this test unrepresentative of actual performance, and I had even less ability to gauge my performance, and improve my LSAT writing skills.

However, the statement that the provisions merely «implies» a link between nationality and EU citizenship is unrepresentative of the nature of this connection of Member State nationality as the the primary condition sine qua non for the acquisition of the status of EU citizenship.

I suspect that what this does is to make the benchers» composition unrepresentative of the profession as a whole: older, more likely to be male, from smaller towns, dominated by litigators, rather than those with general practice backgrounds.

The fact remains that benchmark producers, Android engineers and enthusiasts see these mechanisms as unfair, unrepresentative of the user experience, a bit deceptive and, ultimately, a waste of resources that could have gone to another aspect of product development.