It's easy to envisage Stanley as a representative of humanity itself – more trouble than he's worth, unable to keep his paws to himself, frequently the victim of his own ingenuity, and constantly getting everyone else into trouble alongside him.
However, microbiologist David Pearce of the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, UK, stated that the DNA could simply be contamination from the drilling process, and not representative of Lake Vostok itself.
The effect of such oversaturation, she and others say, is an applicant pool that is representative only of itself, one filled with "serial contestants" who audition for everything.
Our data better represents the general college population in the state of North Carolina, which is itself highly representative of the nation itself.
Our representative government has gotten so incredibly frustrated and separated that it's not representative of anything but itself, and certainly not us, the "represented".
The third requirement is to be representative of the eruption itself.
Davies says that the 12 tree species in the tree ring study, drawn from the seasonally dry peripheries of the rainforests in South America, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia, are not representative of the rainforest itself (though the species were necessary to do the study, because many rainforest species don't have annual growth rings).
Let alone the fact that most book covers aren't representative of the book itself.
Marketers should understand that finding their target audience among the chaos means leaning to segment not by demographics, which are static, but by conversations which are dynamic and representative of the channel itself.
Furthermore, only six study sites were included in this analysis, which may not be fully representative of the region itself.
