representativity
- noun
- /ˌrɛprɪzɛnˈtætɪvɪti/
- Specialized
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representatividad
- A school-based sample of 5,500 Norwegian 16 to 19 year olds (92% response rate) with good population representativity was analyzed.
Examples
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Analyses of the sample show good representativity compared to population statistics (Statistics Norway, 2003) by gender, age, geographical region, minority background, and family composition (Rossow & Bo, 2003).
Academic text (2007) -
In 1995's LRA, the industrial councils were rechristened Bargaining Councils, and the compulsion on the part of the minister weakened so that he or she had some discretion in this matter, and only if there were thresholds reached in terms of employer and union representativity.
Blog text (28) -
"Since she distrusts representativity as much as she does communication, she doesn't feel the need to place an infinity of characters in.
Academic text (1998) -
The conventions of representation are bankrupt, for their legitimacy rested on representativity as much as on resemblance or mimesis.
Academic text (1998) -
If the modernist nation-state is based on the identification of a subject population with a national project that defines its members, in principle, in terms of equality and political representativity, and which is future-oriented and developmentalistic, when this project loses its power of attraction, its subjects must look elsewhere...
Academic text (2009) -
But those people misinterpret the piece, failing to register its "perversity," failing, also, to see that the guile was meant to circumvent the camera's built-in "representativity," not the performers' sincerity.
Academic text (1998) -
The survey aimed to achieve good representativity of the entire community by including diverse groups in the sample.
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To ensure statistical accuracy, researchers emphasized the importance of representativity when selecting participants from different demographics.
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The project's findings were more reliable due to the representativity of the sample size and composition, reflecting the country's population.
Synonyms
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7.3
How well a small group shows the qualities of a larger group
Antonyms
How Representative
Surface Forms
Morphology
representativity = representative (transparent) = represent + ative + ity
The noun is formed by adding the regular nominalizing suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'representative', yielding 'the quality of being representative'.
Etymology
Representativity comes from represent, which is related to present and originally means 'to show' or 'to stand for' someone or something. So representativity is about how well a sample or group 'stands for' a larger population.