overemphasis
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There were incorrect mathematical analyses, reliance on four poor-quality trials and the overemphasis of the study in children.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
I ended up a contract worker at a tech giant, making less than the staffing agency that placed me—but I learned plenty about the industry’s overemphasis on tech and underemphasis on substance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Thomas Dee, a Stanford University education professor and economist, warns that an overemphasis on telling parents to send their children to school with a cold could backfire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
Listing these catch-up details reveals the introductory episodes’ overemphasis on the situation instead of leaning into the comedy of it all.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024
In practice, overemphasis upon formed material leads to an exaggeration of mathematical qualities, since intellect finds its profit in physical things from matters of size, form, and proportion and the relations that flow from them.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
