representativos

Representativos is the plural form of representativo in Portuguese and Spanish. It functions as an adjective meaning "representative" or "embodying," and can also serve as a noun in certain contexts when referring to individuals or items that stand for a larger group or category. In everyday usage, it is common to pair it with nouns such as membros, amostra, or casos to indicate representation.

In political discourse, the term is often used to describe elected individuals who act on behalf of a constituency within a legislative body. Representation democracy relies on representatives to articulate citizens' interests; political systems vary between proportional representation and majoritarian models, which influence who becomes representativo and how well they mirror the population.

In statistics and social science, a muestra representativa or amostra representativa describes a subset that reflects the characteristics of the whole population. Achieving representatividade requires careful sampling design, adequate sample size, stratification, and weighting to minimize bias and to support valid generalizations from the sample to the population.

In other domains, representativos can refer to examples or items used to illustrate a category, such as casos representativos or ejemplos representativos, employed to teach concepts, select candidates for study, or test hypotheses. The concept of representatividade is central to ensuring that analyses, policies, and communications accurately reflect the diversity and structure of the wider group they aim to represent.