representativeness

Noun

1. The state or quality of being representative.
   • 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...
   • 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...
   • Drawing 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...

   Synonyms: representativity