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- v. Present participle of oversample.
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Examples
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To do so would lead to "oversampling," an inefficient overemphasis on particular individuals.
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I can't prove that the same kind of oversampling is in effect for the current poll.
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Secondly, "oversampling" does not mean that one subpopulation is overrepresented in a poll.
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I don't understand why CNN's polls always include "an oversampling of African-Americans."
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What's it at when factoring in the media's traditional oversampling of Obama supporters?
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She wanted to see oversampling in the poll for young people and their economic realities.
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Then researchers weighted the results to correct for the oversampling.
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So I don't think you can completely discount it on the basis of oversampling old farts.
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If, for example, they've first grossly oversampled really old people, and then magnified that by counting 30% of them to derive final numbers, while undercounting people under 50 and applying their lower turnout numbers (27% for middle aged cohorts and 17% for young adults), you can see how you'd be magnifying a the oversampling of the old folks even more.
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ARG never reveals their internals (a suspect practice in and of itself) but we likely have a major oversampling of a demographic that favors Clinton.
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