nonresponse
noun
non·re·sponse
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plural nonresponses
Definition of nonresponse
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All surveys are subject to multiple sources of error, including sampling, question wording and order, and nonresponse. — Zeke Miller, The Seattle Times, "AP VoteCast: Trump a dominant force on voters’ minds," 7 Nov. 2018 In the surrounding Pennsylvania counties, only Delaware County had a higher nonresponse rate, 44.9 percent that year, the report found. — Julie Shaw, Philly.com, "Report: More than one-third ignore Philly jury duty summonses," 9 May 2018 Academics call this the nonresponse bias and have observed different reasons for it. — Bernhard Clemm, Washington Post, "Facebook wants its users to drive out fake news. Here's the problem with that.," 1 Feb. 2018 Reconsidering those polls suggests that the corrections performed for nonresponse in state polls were not as thorough and effective as were done for national surveys. — Andrew Gelman, Slate Magazine, "We Need to Move Beyond Election-Focused Polling," 5 Sep. 2017 There’s certainly cause for concern over the geographic impacts of these closings, not to mention the political nonresponse to them at a time when the president is still crowing over the barely significant coal industry. — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, "The 1.5 Horsemen of the Retail Apocalypse," 21 Apr. 2017 The nonresponse rate alone probably dooms the report as sound quantitative analysis. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, "What We Still Don’t Know About the Islamic State’s Foreign Fighters," 19 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nonresponse.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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