Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being representative.
Our examination of the representativeness of WEIRD subjects is necessarily restricted to the rather limited database currently available.
2009 March 5, Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine, Ara Norenzayan, “The Weirdest People in the World”, in University of British Columbia, page 42 more examples
One should not compromise on the essential standard of representativeness of the corpus as a whole. A corpus is only good if it can be reasonably trusted to represent the way language is used by those people whose usage one is interested in describing.
2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 331Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 108Synonyms: representativity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or quality of being representative.
Origin
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