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
An overemphasis on winning risks rewarding the vigilant while exhausting everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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
"Dirty fuel, the overemphasis on external markers of achievement," she says, "over time is going to clog up your kid's engine."
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2023
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
