And as long as candidates need enormous sums, they will give excessive weight to the interests of their big contributors.
Gates's insistence on making all entries bite-size gives excessive weight to some people and seriously shortchanges others.
This major shift in British judicial attitudes was influenced by the European Court's findings that the Law Lords had unnecessarily interfered with free expression by giving excessive weight to other competing rights and interests.
Does this power not give excessive weight to the interests of families as against the interests of both the deceased and potential recipients?
The package also gives excessive weight to infrastructure spending and loan expansion rather than targeting domestic consumption, which must rise much more to sustain China's growth, some analysts say.
In order that highly under-represented cases were not given excessive importance, weights were constrained to have a value of no more than five.
"One of the dangers we run now is that the innovative aspect is given … excessive weight, and that the source which innovation needs to come from, that is basic research and knowledge, is abandoned," says Juan Lerma, director of the Institute of Neurosciences in Alicante and president of the Spanish Society for Neuroscience.
The only trouble is, neither diet worked all that well given the group's excessive weight, averaging 216 pounds at the start.
Gerard Petillo, vice president and a founder of Parents of Angels, a Bronx-based support group for parents of autistic children, said that he did not know Ulysses but that medications given to such children might cause excessive weight gain.
One possible explanation is that, in case of very small samples, the weighting resulted in a significant distortion of the population, with excessive weights given to marginal subjects.
