overrepresent

Verb

overrepresent (third-person singular simple present overrepresents, present participle overrepresenting, simple past and past participle overrepresented)

1. (transitive) To represent as being higher or greater than it is.
   • Ms. LeCrone was the only woman, probably overrepresenting the general percentage of female ballet choreographers, but perhaps the most experienced of the group.2010 November 16, Roslyn Sulcas, “Young Ballet-Makers Elaborate on Technique”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2018
   • “The Senate is so tough for Democrats because the Senate so overrepresents these sparsely populated rural states,” says Alan Abramowitz, an Emory University political scientist who has extensively studied the relationship between presidential and congressional voting.2020 November 10, Ronald Brownstein, “Why the Senate is so tough for Democrats”, in CNN