Sentences with phrase «often unrepresentative»

«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.

Moreover, samples are often unrepresentative of the population, introducing systemic biases by overweighting the preferences of certain demographics: Yair Lapid had always predicted that he would win more seats than he was forecast, because pollsters relied on calling people by landline, and his supporters, predominantly young, had only mobile phones.

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This is the case not least because their views on the ethics of assisted dying for the terminally ill or equal rights for gay people or state - funded religious schools were unrepresentative and often lay far outside the mainstream.

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

To talk about energy and the economy is a tautology: every economic activity is fundamentally nothing but a conversion of one kind of energy to another, and monies are just a convenient (and often rather unrepresentative) proxy for valuing the energy flows.

Active steps are requited to secure a less unrepresentative pool: this requires not merely radical changes in the methods by which the pool is assembled, but a significant investment of money to ensure that rural people can travel the often substantial distances to the place of the trial without financial loss, and a regime that offers meaningful assistance with day care for children and dependent adults.