Sentences with phrase «becomes skewed»

For example, as sites are place near population centers at a greater rate, the deviation from true temperature is not Gaussian — it becomes skewed in favor of hotter readings as you get closer to the current date, or alternatively cooler as you go further back in time.

These appropriated fragments are dislocated from their original cultural contexts, and any sense of their previous functionality becomes skewed, or distant.

Well, the feature that makes Eternal Darkness unique, is the fact that depending on the level of your sanity meter, the game's camera angle becomes skewed and the player starts to hear whispers and other unsettling noises.

Where an autoimmune response occurs, however, the body's ability to identify and ward off these harmful substances becomes skewed, resulting in the immune system producing antibodies that destroy normal healthy tissues instead of the antigens.

With a newborn in tow everything becomes skewed - basic tasks like having a wee become hijacked by your baby not wanting to be left alone and a routine burping session leaves you unexpectedly with another load of regurgitated milk stained laundry!

So often the focus becomes skewed as parents try to out do one another with the latest greatest show or activity that is going around.

With a newborn in tow everything becomes skewed - basic tasks like having a wee become hijacked by baby not wanting to be left alone and a routine burping session leaves you unexpectedly with another load of milk stained laundry!

Our belief system becomes skewed.

He believes the service will give the middle class a greater stake in a capitalist system that has become skewed towards the rich.

«The marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons,» the story's authors wrote, noting that last year, for the first time, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and intellectual property than on research and development, a striking fact that sharply illustrates how incentives have become skewed in the tech industry.

Hence it's highly likely that estrogen dominance will lead to the ratio between the two androgens, testosterone and DHT, becoming skewed far too much in favour of DHT.

Unless we address some of the worst aspects of the current accountability system, including acceptance of the inherent limitations of data, even the most sensible assessment arrangements will become skewed.

As readers shift to digital, the economics of book shops will become skewed, favouring online emporia.

Realize it's possible your perspective has become skewed over time.

Ergo, if investors panic and sell their ETFs, supply won't be able to keep up with demand, and the prices of these futures will become skewed.

The problem is that a large number of brachycephalic dogs show the signs at the milder end of the above spectrum and our tolerance of what is normal for these breeds has become skewed.

On top of that, reality is becoming skewed.

Sea ice extent data, however, has become skewed due to the strong downward trend in ice extent, with a wider spread of values and more values falling at the low end of the range.

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A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

And the latest statistics suggest the relationship is becoming even more skewed in Moscow's favor this year: in January, Russia's share of Kazakhstani imports rose to 35.6 percent while the export share dropped to 5.3 percent.

Consequently, TFSA benefits, currently balanced across wealth groups, will become increasingly skewed toward high - wealth households over time,» the PBO said.

CBOE SKEW Index values, which are calculated from weighted strips of out - of - the - money S&P 500 options, rise to higher levels as investors become more fearful of a «black swan» event — an unexpected event of large magnitude and consequence.

However, it may pay to be wary of entering the market at this late stage, as risk / reward ratios tend to become unfavorably skewed late in a cycle.

With an increase in volatility of volatility, risk management became more critical, especially if you are net short volatility and / or you have a lot of exposure to the skew (dGamma / dSpot).

But in a culture like ours, where parents have very little time to spend with their children, and where an obsessive pursuit of youth has caused an 800 percent increase in cosmetic surgical procedures in ten years, a focus on becoming childlike at Christmas seems guaranteed to skew the message of the incarnation.

These Americans (who are becoming a larger fraction of the electorate every year) have a particularly skewed view of our political debate.

How skewed to the left have the state's politics become?

That becomes even more skewed when you start looking at members of the NAS and the like.

It seems obvious to me that cultural power in our society has become far too concentrated in super-rich institutions with skewed priorities.

A data point that was going to be skewed in our favor before the data became clear.

In the days since, other vendors have been scrambling and practitioners have been debating, but it's also become obvious that the research seems to have significant flaws that skew the results in Cap Ad's favor versus its competitors.

I'd hazard a guess poll conducted in the week after Hilary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, is going to skew results simply because the question «ready now a female president» could easily be conflated with «ready for Hilary Clinton as president» for a portion of either party's voters.

It is also becoming evident, on the basis of votes cast, how skewed the electoral system is: for the Conservatives, 2m more votes than Labour translates into 48 more Tory seats, while Labour's similar 2m vote advantage over the Lib Dems means 200 more seats.

While most reports reference only one of these metrics — most measure the effects over 100 years — a standardized approach including both should become the norm to avoid skewing results.

«The criteria, I think, became very much skewed not toward outstanding science, but outstanding leadership,» which put many investigators at a disadvantage, says Rossant, a winner in the competition.

During the study, environments lacking plentiful food were male - skewed, with 78 percent of sea lampreys becoming male after three years, whereas environments more conducive to growth produced only 56 percent males.

He explains that it has become all too easy for some researchers to misrepresent their results, enhancing DNA bands in a gel, for example, or scrubbing out background blemishes, either to innocently make images look better or, in some cases, to skew the results deliberately.

Plus, government food numbers, especially during war times are notoriously skewed - first, they are counting what is distributed rather than what is consumed - and second, people raise their OWN food animals when food becomes more scarce - and these would not be counted by government agencies.

It's up to you if you want to drop it, but research shows that being on the pill lowers our progesterone levels, which affects our mood among other things, but can also gradually lead to «estrogen dominance» (where our estrogen to progesterone ratio becomes unnaturally skewed in the favour of estrogen).

Dating and mating behavior is influenced by prevailing sex ratios, when there are plenty of marriageable men, dating culture emphasizes courtship and romance, but when gender ratios skew toward women the whole dating culture becomes more sexualized.

Soon «The Pee - Wee Herman Show» became a nightclub act unto itself; this multi-layered skewing of the whole children's entertainment ethic included a huge supporting cast, deliberately repulsive puppets, bizarre props, and, of course, Pee - Wee himself, who cavorted about the set like a baby speed freak.

Employing such techniques as Godardian jump cuts and ellipses, expressive camera moves and angles, and garish colors, all punctuated by Bernard Herrmann's eerie final score (finished the day he died), Scorsese presents a Manhattan skewed through Travis» point - of - view, where De Niro's now - famous «You talkin'to me» improv becomes one more sign of Travis» madness.

As shooting continues, Mitchell and Laurel becomes lovers and this compromises the project — smitten Mitchell begins skewing scenes toward his lady, much to the dismay of the screenwriter and other cast members (Cliff De Young plays her older co-star).

The fact she's still slogging on TV while Carey Mulligan swans round the Oscars proves how outrageously public - school - skewed the acting industry has become in the twenty - first century.

«Casting Couch»: The Origins of a Pernicious Hollywood Cliché — Ben Zimmer traces how a seemingly innocuous phrase became a metonym for the skewed sexual politics of show business.

The spring also kicked up another unlikely candidate in Maggie Smith, as the comedy / drama The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel struck a chord with the older - skewing Academy members and became a possible dark horse in a couple of categories leading up to the nominations.

The authors look at how current education accountability systems have become similarly skewed and suggest some very useful alternatives.

Data has become a loaded term in our high - stakes and test - driven world, but don't let the buzzwords skew the value of good information.

So there will be demand for print books but at a much reduced level (because many others will shift to digital as will casual readers and new readers) and the economics of bookshops will become completely skewed favouring the online Emporia.

Speaking strictly of sales and revenue per unit, the data would become very skewed towards self - pub.