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Meaning of "representativeness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REPRESENTATIVENESS

representativeness  [ˌrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REPRESENTATIVENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Representativeness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES REPRESENTATIVENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Representativeness heuristic

The representativeness heuristic is used when making judgments about the probability of an event under uncertainty. It is one of a group of heuristics proposed by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the early 1970s. Heuristics are described as “judgmental shortcuts that generally get us where we need to go – and quickly – but at the cost of occasionally sending us off course.” Heuristics are useful because they use effort-reduction and simplification in decision making. Tversky and Kahneman defined representativeness as "the degree to which is similar in essential characteristics to its parent population, and reflects the salient features of the process by which it is generated". When people rely on representativeness to make judgments, they are likely to judge wrongly because the fact that something is more representative does not make it more likely. The representativeness heuristic is simply described as assessing similarity of objects and organizing them based around the category prototype...

Definition of representativeness in the English dictionary

The first definition of representativeness in the dictionary is the state or quality of serving to represent or of being symbolic. Other definition of representativeness is the state of quality of exemplifying a class or kind or of being typical. Representativeness is also the state or quality of containing or including examples of all the interests, types, etc, in a group.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REPRESENTATIVENESS


assertiveness
əˈsɜːtɪvnɪs
attentiveness
əˈtɛntɪvnɪs
attractiveness
əˈtræktɪvnɪs
combativeness
ˈkɒmbətɪvnɪs
communicativeness
kəˈmju:nɪkətɪvnɪs
competitiveness
kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnɪs
cost-effectiveness
ˌkɒstɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
destructiveness
dɪˈstrʌktɪvnɪs
distinctiveness
dɪˈstɪŋktɪvnɪs
effectiveness
ɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
imaginativeness
ɪˈmædʒɪnətɪvnɪs
inquisitiveness
ɪnˈkwɪzɪtɪvnɪs
lucrativeness
ˈluːkrətɪvnɪs
protectiveness
prəˈtɛktɪvnɪs
receptiveness
rɪˈseptɪvnɪs
secretiveness
ˈsiːkrətɪvnɪs
talkativeness
ˈtɔːkətɪvnɪs
unimaginativeness
ˌʌnɪˈmædʒnətɪvnɪs
vindictiveness
vɪnˈdɪktɪvnɪs
vitativeness
ˈvaɪtətɪvnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REPRESENTATIVENESS

represent
representability
representable
representamen
representant
representation
representational
representationalism
representationalistic
representationism
representationist
representations
representative
representatively
representee
representer
representment
representor
repress
repressed

WORDS THAT END LIKE REPRESENTATIVENESS

activeness
adhesiveness
aggressiveness
appropriateness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
completeness
cuteness
defensiveness
doneness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness
whiteness

Synonyms and antonyms of representativeness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «representativeness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REPRESENTATIVENESS

Find out the translation of representativeness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of representativeness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «representativeness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

代表性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

representatividad
570 millions of speakers

English

representativeness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

representativeness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تمثيل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

репрезентативность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

representatividade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রতিনিধীত্বগুলির
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

représentativité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Representatif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Repräsentativität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

代表性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대표성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wakil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đại diện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிரதிநிதித்துவங்களின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिनिधीत्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

temsil edilebilirlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rappresentatività
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

reprezentatywność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

репрезентативність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

reprezentativitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιπροσωπευτικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verteenwoordiging
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

representativitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

representativitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of representativeness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REPRESENTATIVENESS»

The term «representativeness» is regularly used and occupies the 94.805 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REPRESENTATIVENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «representativeness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «representativeness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about representativeness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REPRESENTATIVENESS»

Discover the use of representativeness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to representativeness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Reforming the UN Security Council Membership: The Illusion ...
This book comprehensively examines the different proposals put forward for reforming the UN Security Council by analysing their objectives and exploring whether the implementation of these proposals would actually create a representative ...
Sabine Hassler, 2012
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The Practice of Social Research
Although the term representativeness has no precise, scientific meaning, it carries a common- sense meaning that makes it useful here. For our purpose, a sample is representative of the population from which it is selected if the aggregate ...
Earl Babbie, 2009
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The Finnish Paper Workers' Union at a crossroads: Labor ...
A more positive aspect of reputational representativeness can be seen in community unionism, where unions cooperate with local organizations to achieve a common goal (e.g., Wills 2001 and Black 2005). This strand of thinking fits with  ...
Paul Jonker-Hoffrén
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Corpus Linguistics at Work
The second issue mentioned above is closely related to the one of authenticity, and it is the vexed question of the representativeness of the language included in a corpus. According to Leech (1991:27) a corpus is representative when "the ...
Elena Tognini-Bonelli, 2001
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Research in Health Care: Concepts, Designs and Methods
In exploratory research, however, a different form of representativeness may be at stake. This may be referred to as theoretical representativeness. Here, a researcher may derive theoretical insights from a study which are sufficiently general or ...
Julius Sim, Chris Wright, 2000
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
The two representativeness hypotheses have been used to explain a variety of observations, such as the relative ineffectiveness of consensus information and the use of similarity in the interpretation of projective tests (Nisbett & Ross, 1980).
Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, Amos Tversky, 1982
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Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment
2. Representativeness. Revisited: Attribute. Substitution. in. Intuitive. Judgment. Daniel Kahneman and Shane Frederick The program of research now known as the heuristics and biases approach began with a survey of 84 participants at the ...
Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, Daniel Kahneman, 2002
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Corpus-based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource Book
sampling. A2.1 INTRODUCTION We noted in Unit Al that representativeness is an essential feature of a corpus. It is this feature that is typically used to distinguish a corpus from an archive (i.e. a random collection of texts). A corpus is designed ...
Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao, Yukio Tono, 2006
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Entrepreneurial Strategic Decision-making: A Cognitive ...
We shall develop hypotheses to explore the relation between these five types of entrepreneurial decision-makers and the use of the representativeness heuristic and overconfidence bias. Our research question is stated in the following way: ...
Patrick Alexander Maria Vermeulen, Petru Lucian Curșeu, 2010
10
Trust and Economic Learning
The discussion will be restricted to representativeness and its consequences on the formation of beliefs, but further investigation should show that other heuristics, such as availability, anchoring and simulation also play a role in markets.
Nathalie Lazaric, Edward Lorenz, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REPRESENTATIVENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term representativeness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Achieving Realism In Human Factors Work: How To Stay Out Of …
Here, we would like to focus more in-depth on a central issue related to usability studies — “representativeness.” One of the terms the FDA repeatedly uses in ... «Med Device Online, Jun 15»
2
Ray La Raja & Wouter Van Erve: Don't romanticize Town Meeting …
Lack of representativeness. Oldham claims that TM is “accessible” and “brings more diversity to governance than otherwise possible.” But compared to what? «Amherst Bulletin, Jun 15»
3
Vanessa MacDonnell: Truly representative juries matter
In a particularly revealing passage, Justice Moldaver suggests that aboriginal people bear some responsibility for the system's lack of representativeness, noting ... «National Post, Jun 15»
4
'Eskom sacrificing essential skills for racial representativeness
'Eskom sacrificing essential skills for racial representativeness': Solidarity ... essential skills in order to achieve its ideology of national racial representativeness. «Times LIVE, May 15»
5
Aboriginals not entitled to 'representative' jurors, SCC rules
Written by Justice Michael Moldaver, the decision states: “Representativeness is not about targeting particular groups for inclusion on the jury roll. The province ... «Canadian Lawyer Magazine, May 15»
6
Rich Clark: The Doyle Poll — a Vermont tradition
Only surveys that employ probability sampling techniques have the claim to representativeness of larger populations by scientific standards. Nevertheless, I love ... «vtdigger.org, Mar 15»
7
White, male lawyers should say 'no' to judicial appointments
It is not an understatement to say that we are in the midst of a crisis of representativeness in our federal judiciary. For example, since 2012, 46 practising lawyers ... «The Globe and Mail, Feb 15»
8
NORC at the University of Chicago Launches AmeriSpeak - A …
Sample Representativeness – AmeriSpeak's panel is representative of the entire U.S. population because it leverages NORC's National Frame, the industry ... «PR Newswire, Jan 15»
9
A time for change? The future of INGOs in international human rights
Representativeness and access in the human rights arena is crucial, but is decentralization really the best move? A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate ... «Open Democracy, Jan 15»
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JC poll reveals 88 per cent of British Jews have not considered …
There can be no confidence in its representativeness”. In a separate poll conducted by YouGov for the CAA, 45 per cent of British people believed at least of one ... «Jewish Chronicle, Jan 15»

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