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That's a new word to me, "overindex". Had to Google it, and that was kind of fun. It seems to be from economics, but nowadays a bit of a Microsoft term, maybe?

Here's Raymond Chen in 2017 explaining it [1]:

To over-index on an attribute means to give that attribute too much prominence in a discussion or analysis.

Also fun to note that Wictionary [2] does not mention this meaning at all, instead saying it means to index out of bounds in an array which given the technical usage sphere of the word is kind of amusing.

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20171226-00/?p=97...

[2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overindex



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