representativeness
Noun
Meaning
The quality or state of being representative.
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The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.
The representativeness heuristic may lead to errors such as activating stereotypes and inaccurate judgements of others (Haselton et al., 2005, p. 726).
Randomized stratification can also be used to improve population representativeness in a study.
The researcher may provide some alternative justification for the representativeness of the sample.
This often improves the representativeness of the sample by reducing sampling error.
The Standing Bureau and the commissions are set up according to the proportional representativeness of the groups in the Parliament.