Racially, Iowa is indeed nonrepresentative of the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Brown: You and I Don't Care Who Wins the Iowa Caucuses] Reference

All this makes it tempting to dismiss the poll as nonrepresentative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning Out for McCain] Reference

Conclusions from such a nonrepresentative study cannot be taken too seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Versus the Biologists: An Exchange] Reference

Again, everyone knows Zogby started with a nonrepresentative sample, including Zogby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Bill Clinton: I Opposed Iraq War From The Beginning] Reference

Internet pollsters are well aware that they are starting with nonrepresentative pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Camp: Hillary Campaign's Attacking Us Because She's No Longer Frontrunner] Reference

GAO conducted covert testing at a nonrepresentative selection of 19 airports across the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homeland Security Breaches] Reference

And if they were mishandled but are nonrepresentative, O should CONCEDE that those cores were mishandled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reply to von Storch and Zorita « Climate Audit] Reference

As a nonrepresentative of MoveOn. org, I personally have to say that I want to see this administration out.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Might Be Onto Something] Reference

Unfortunately, as far as deadly nonrepresentative dictatorships go, Burma's junta is not even the worst on the continent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aid Beyond Borders] Reference

As I noted before, what they actually do is try to compensate for their nonrepresentative sample before arriving at final numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Camp: Hillary Campaign's Attacking Us Because She's No Longer Frontrunner] Reference

Theater is better in this regard I think but movie and TV actors/actresses are always so nonrepresentative of real people - particularly of women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guest Blogger Crabbie] Reference

"Your Honors, there is only one member of the species Fuzzy fuzzy holloway zarathustra at present in court, an immature and hence nonrepresentative individual.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fuzzy Papers]

When Greenberg presented negative findings to the ANC, the leaders were so stunned, they accused Greenberg of rigging the poll and using a nonrepresentative sample.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Presidential Wake-Up Call] Reference

Addendum to #8: There is also the problem of statistical sampling error -- even if you avoid all the other errors, you may just happen to poll a nonrepresentative sample of the population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: New Poll Has Reichert +3%] Reference

This nonrepresentative sample is, nevertheless, significant and documents a discrepancy of several years between biological maturity and emotional readiness for heterosexual relationships.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Actually, I suspect that many calling most loudly for a “cleanup” know this, and that their real motivation is to aggravate doubts among the uninformed with a few nonrepresentative pictures.    From Wordnik.com.  [USHCN Survey Results based on 33% of the network « Climate Audit] Reference

Samuel Isaacharoff, an election law professor at New York University, observed, "just as nonrepresentative as Iowa is of the country, Iowa caucusgoers are nonrepresentative of Iowa as a whole.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Brown: You and I Don't Care Who Wins the Iowa Caucuses] Reference

Again, the more obvious point is that often the primary voters will favor someone who is LESS popular among the general electorate, precisely because primary voters are a nonrepresentative subset of that general electorate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: Being Wife Of President Does Not Constitute Experience] Reference

Among other things, that literature has looked at the various methods people are trying to deal with issues such as the nonrepresentative sample, and people are tracking how accurate these polls have been in various contexts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Camp: Hillary Campaign's Attacking Us Because She's No Longer Frontrunner] Reference

In redeeming the peasantry, the revolution is taking the first step toward establishing a real democracy, a democracy without slaves, without helots, and which today presents the rare case of a nonrepresentative democracy, one that is pure, a democracy that lives through the direct participation of the people in its public problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO AGRESS TO RETURN TO PREMIERSHIP] Reference

You, however, have loudly and frequently advocated discriminating against individuals solely on the basis of their religious beliefs, attributed to millions of people the faults of an extremely small and nonrepresentative minority group, claimed that Muslims should be arresting for praying aloud in public, and told mildly sexist jokes in favor of racial profiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - A hypothetical.] Reference

There are a number of factors that can contribute to nonrepresentative juries anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Situationist] Reference

"We have a nonrepresentative government shoving socialism down our throats," speaker Jeff Leany shouted to cheers.    From Wordnik.com.  [GJSentinel.com] Reference

"Clearly poor quality" research "by everyone involved - the sample is blatantly nonrepresentative of the larger ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [ARN News] Reference

This Essay identifies, to the contrary, problematic issues involving the availability of information on nonrepresentative settlements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Theory Blog] Reference

(C) compare the role of citizens in the United States with the role of citizens from various contemporary societies with representative and nonrepresentative governments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhymes With Right] Reference

This preference by Odierno for a nonrepresentative force plays out as Kurdish leaders attempt to consolidate control of additional territory in opposition to a centralized national government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake] Reference

This isn't quite over-there are a few days for another super-conglomerate team to come together and there is some small chance that the performance is nonrepresentative of the final test set, but I expect not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Machine Learning (Theory)] Reference

Okay: participation in the group “Panda’s thumb commenters” is not based on consensus, its based on following rules set down and enforced by a nonrepresentative, self-appointed sub-group.    From Wordnik.com.  [The perfect phrase - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

BLITZER: You wrote in The Washington Post at the end of December that "to hold elections under current circumstances, when a sizable part of the country is not secure, just for the sake of voting, would produce a disproportionate and nonrepresentative national assembly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2005] Reference

KING: What do you think the nonrepresentative.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Gore v. Bush: Will the U.S. Supreme Court Finalize the Election? - December 12, 2000] Reference