overpresent
overpresent.01 - overrepresent; present (statistically) more often than is true or fair
OVERPRESENT-V NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT. No VNcls. This sense corresponds to present.01, not present.102, the clinical sense. A different sense should be made for that if it comes up. (from overpresent.01-v)Aliases:
overpresent (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: agent of (re)presentation
ARG1-PPT: entity (re)presented
ARG1-PPT: entity (re)presented
arg 1
This relentless obsession with white privelege and equal opportunities is absurd in the Britain of 2011 ; most of the richest men in the country are Indian , Jew or Russian and
AsiansARG1
are statisticallyARGM-MNR
overpresentedrel
in higher professional fields , exam results etcARGM-LOC
yet escape all that inverted class snobberyArg 1, PRD and ADV
The authors found that persons of color were heavily presented in stories about crime , and within those stories were more likely to be presented as perpetrators of crime than as persons reacting to or suffering from it . An analysis using recent homicide rates in Philadelphia and a rational model of expected victimization indicated that contrary to a realistic conflict explanation ,
White actorsARG1
were overpresentedrel
as victims of violenceARGM-PRD
compared to their roles as perpetratorsARGM-ADV
, and persons of color were overpresented as perpetrators of violence against White actors .