to skew
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5.4
- verb
- /skjuː/
:
sesgar
- Her interpretation of the events skewed the public's understanding of what actually happened.
- skew the distribution
- positively skewed
- highly skewed
Or do a few sensational cases skew our perception?
- Or do a few sensational cases skew our perception?
- I mean, it does seem to skew more to the female side.
- They were all along, they were skewing the playing field.
- But I feel like it's also kind of like skewing women's expectations of things, right?
- So that also skews the the viability of those data points.
- They funded that that research to to basically skew the the whole research in their direction.
- So, you know, the music skewing younger.
- It's just that your your view of the world is entirely skewed by a machine, OK.
- But that number could be skewed by larger one time transfers for layoffs.
- But Logan, you know, he caters his audience, I guess is younger, skews younger than him.
- So my day already is skewed that way.
- If we look at the podcast, your podcast and my understanding is it's skews female in terms of listenership.
- And all those skew and create subjective bias in our interpretation reality.
Examples
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We would expect to find the shark fishery heavily skewed toward the most specialized group.
Academic text (1993) -
The educational level of the participants was skewed toward a higher educational level.
Academic text (2015) -
I mean, it does seem to skew more to the female side.
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Our demographics skew older today than they ever have.
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The scale is skewed to the money thing.
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You know as well as I do that things get skewed in the media.
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Or do a few sensational cases skew our perception?
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As illustrated in Figure 1, the ratings were greatly skewed toward the high side.
Academic text (1992) -
But I feel like it's also kind of like skewing women's expectations of things, right?
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That is just a huge misrepresentation of reality, and that really skews our perceptions.
Synonyms
59
4.3
To change the shape of something so it is no longer normal
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7.4
To change facts or stories so they are not true
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4.8
To make something unstable or uneven
Compounds
- Specialized
An arch with ends that meet the front at an angle and that is used on bridges or tunnels
- Specialized
A relationship between two things where one changes at different speeds
How Distorted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skew meaning 'to distort' grew from the idea of making something 'crooked', so changing facts or numbers at an angle gives a wrong or unfair view. So to skew data or news is to move it away from the true picture.