Disproportionally represent ?
Hi~ In the following sentences, I don't understand what the underlined part means.
Does that mean that the college students represent a better-adjusted segment well? OR
does that mean that the college students does not represent a better-adjusted segment properly?
And why do you think the author say like that? If anybody can guess the meaning and the reason, please let me know that. Your comments will be a big help for me. Thank you~!
In this case, moms and dads might not be crying wolf and the sky might
actually be falling—falling, just like the empathy levels have been among
children and adolescents. Over the last three decades, self-reported empathy
surveys reveal a significant decline in the trait among college-age students. It is important to note that these surveys are conducted with college students who disproportionally
represent a better-adjusted segment of our society’s young adults. An
alarming fact is that the downward trend in empathy scores has demonstrated
a sharper decline in the last 10 years. This means that the issue is
not stabilizing but rapidly increasing in severity.
Top answer
It means that a greater proportion of college students are "well-adjusted" than is the case with the general population.
- It means that a greater proportion of college students are "well-adjusted" than is the case with the general population.
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It means that a greater proportion of college students are "well-adjusted" than is the case with the general population.
0It means that college students are, on average, more well-adjusted than the population of young adults taken as a whole.
For example, we pick 100 college students (age 18-24) and 100 young adults (age 18-24).
Of the college students, we expect that 90 of them would be well adjusted. Of the young adults, we expect that 75 of them would be well adjusted. So by selecting only colle
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