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What does underrepresent mean?

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Verb
  1. To represent something as being lower or smaller than is the case.
  2. To give something insufficient or inadequate representation.
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However, these statistics underrepresent the extent of HIV prevalence, since they only include prisoners whose HIV status is known.
This makes it imperative to consider why jury selection in the George Zimmerman trial, like jury selection in so many counties in the United States, continues to underrepresent African-Americans.
Horn cautioned that, as a homeless advocate, he's concerned that the count could underrepresent the number of county homeless residents.
Even participatory planning methods may fail to accommodate this if they underrepresent both women and the very poor.
Therefore, our data most likely underrepresent the communication abilities and communication interactions of nonspeaking seriously ill adults.
Care should be exercised to avoid taking heights on oddly placed bolt ends that would over-represent or underrepresent pile height.

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