Sentences with phrase «with unrepresentative»

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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.

The initiative process and the Constitution Revision Commission, which is appointed every 20 years, owe their existence to a grossly unrepresentative Legislature that was controlled by rural counties with fewer than 20 percent of Florida's population.

Although the Australian work of McIntosh (2010) found that infants under two who spent one night or more a week and toddlers who spend 10 days a month of overnight time in their non-primary caregiver's care are more irritable, more severely distressed and insecure in their relationships with their primary parent, less persistent at tasks, and more physically and emotionally stressed, this study has been largely discredited by a recently published consensus report endorsed by 110 child development experts (Warshak, 2013), which found that McIntosh drew unwarranted conclusions from her unrepresentative and flawed data.

This piece, written by the man who led the independent inquiry into last year's polling debacle which was released this week, suggested it was more about unrepresentative samples than it was to do with «shy Tories».

Some people have however suggested to purposefully vote on parties with no chance of going to the parliament, with the aim of showing how unrepresentative the parliament is.

From the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests, Greens have stood in solidarity with the activists demanding changes from an out - of - control financial sector and unrepresentative government.

With Corbyn leading Labour, Farage has already made sounds about him being unrepresentative of a bulk of its core vote and how he hasn't been decisive on the EU issue.

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.

Indeed, I suspect the reason the narrative has traction with the MSM pundit class is because they mostly live in this highly unrepresentative area.)

More to the point, few of these studies have yet to be replicated, and most of them rely on a handful of unrepresentative people (US undergrads) who are asked to undertake the kind of lab - controlled tasks that usually share a questionable (at best) relationship with real world activities.

Over on the 74, Nelson Smith responded with «A Few Thoughts About John Oliver's Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools.»

Unless a quorum is required for the passage of legislation, leaders can pass legislation with only an unrepresentative group in attendance.

Spending their school days with school leaders who appear to be unrepresentative of their views and with whom they appear to have little in common, may put BME students off a teaching career.

If all these vacancies are filled in the traditional ways with the same pools of come - and - go failures, prepared and developed in the traditional ways with the same demographically unrepresentative candidates, we can predict continued and expanded school failures with great certainty.

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).

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But fighting unrepresentative exhibitions with other unrepresentative exhibitions might not be the answer.

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.

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 one.

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.

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.

A pretty sad looking unrepresentative lot with which to launch a new era.