Disproportionately vs Undercount - What's the difference?
disproportionately | undercount |
in a disproportionate manner
* 2013 May 23, , "
To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another
*{{quote-news, 2009, January 8, Brian Stelter, Arbitron Settles Lawsuit Alleging Bias in Radio Ratings System, New York Times
, passage=But minority stations have claimed that they are undercounted in the new system, in part because Arbitron has struggled to include representative numbers of young and minority listeners in its sample. }}
As an adverb disproportionately
is in a disproportionate manner.As a verb undercount is
to count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another.disproportionately
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(en adverb)British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”
undercount
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