Sentences with phrase «skew in»

«The housing market continues to skew in favor of investors, particularly deep - pocketed institutional investors, and other buyers paying with cash,» said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.

The average drinks per week variable was truncated at 30 due to the positive skew in the distribution.

I learned from this rough survey that I should take another look at the free legislative databases available, although I suspect part of the skew in choice stems from the rather fluid understanding of the term «research».

The upward skew in carbon use over the income range comes about because higher - income households don't just drive more, they also fly more (burning jet fuel), they tend to own bigger (and sometimes multiple) houses to heat and cool, and they buy and use more products that require electricity or industrial fuels to manufacture, deliver and use.

I even think the TOB adjustments may be part of this skew in the records.

These days Turner is focused on letting objects be themselves, though he is careful to skew them in odd and provocative ways.

Even the CDC noted this when they did their report on attacks by dog breed back in 1997 — but idiots like Merritt Clifton refuse to acknowledge that the media influence has created a major skew in his data.

We might suspect that there is a natural tendency toward a right skew in equities — after all, a stock can only go down by 100 %, while it can appreciate by more than that.

One thing is clear that there is a skew in the portfolio towards equity and the deviation is significant too (+20 %).

When did you start to see the number skew in this direction?

And in many cases, judgments tend to skew in favor of creative writers who claim to be telling the truth.

If Amazon uses Select titles in developing rankings, that would place another skew in the data, since those are technically not sales.

So the skew in numbers?

Propos «Nature offers propolis to skew in the form of sticks to be cut in pieces that will be chewed one at a time, slowly at the beginning to obtain a homogeneous paste.

Nutrition labels can't ever be exactly accurate, obviously, and sometimes they are indeed off by quite a lot, but the inaccuracies skew in both directions and generally average out enough to be insignificant.

I suspect there is a big skew in this data as well, with a few people studying a lot and most people not studying at all.

The skew in NIH funding that the researchers found is not surprising — NIH has noted the inequality in its own analyses.

A Labour skew in the current electoral arrangement is, so to speak, an urban myth; the real problem is that the poor no longer vote, since they no longer have anyone to vote for.

I come from a background in SEO and link building, so most of the content will have some kind of skew in that direction.

«Your lawyer will skew it in your favor,» Jacobson says.

In fact, recent studies skew in the opposite direction, finding that certain vitamins may be bad for you.

The country also boasts the highest government backing per capita for start - ups, though that tends to be skewed in favor of Korean nationals.

Rivera's findings indicate that, when it comes to «elite professional services» firms, the playing field is usually «skewed in favor of applicants from the most privileged backgrounds.»

Since the series debuted, Demos and Ricciardi have spent a fair amount of time defending their work against claims (from the likes of Kratz and others) that the documentary is unfairly skewed in Avery's favor.

Again, the situation is skewed in favor of gun owners.

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.

«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.

Looking back through history, whenever value stocks have gotten this cheap, subsequent long - term returns have generally been strong.3 From current depressed valuation levels, value stocks have in the past, on average, doubled over the next five years.4 Not that we necessarily expect returns of this magnitude this time around, but based on the data and our six decades of experience investing through various market cycles, we believe the current risk / reward proposition is heavily skewed in favor of long - term value investors.

(I love to read novels, spiritual memoirs, and theology books mostly so the list is skewed in that direction.)

The justice system is broken, skewed in favor of the wealthy and the white.

Problem being no inflation theory really limits this skewing in any way.

Economists may acknowledge that the increased consumption is disproportionately skewed in favor of the rich and that the poor gain least.

They are then cooked over a big charcoal grill skewed in iron skewers.

The order is just as skewed in the East where the 76ers have a legit shot at securing home - court advantage in the first round.

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

But every day we keep him down, that math skews in the wrong direction.

The risk / reward seems skewed in the favor of risk.

This should be an excellent game between two of the MLS» top teams, though the line is heavily skewed in Atlanta United's favor due to the team's outstanding home pitch advantage.

Considering that it would be unlikely for anyone to top 300 innings again, that distribution would have to be even more skewed in favor of the one - and zero - run outings.

The line started out as 0 «pick»em» and was heavily skewed in Frankfurt's favour.

Thus, the numbers will tend to be skewed in favor of midwives.

Yes, democracy is the norm in many African countries but it seems as if our definition of democracy is skewed in favour of life presidents and oppressive regimes.

I therefore come to the conclusion that the final deal reached will be clearly skewed in the EU's favour, whilst also being significantly better than «no deal».

Thus, the final deal would inevitably be skewed in the EU's favour.

Our leading psychiatric politicians have successfully managed to use the medium of universal bribery as well as their devious Machiavellian charismatic authorities to subvert the moral authority of elective franchise by skewing it in their favor, exclusively for partisan political advantage.

That security appointments, under President Muhammadu Buhari, is skewed in favour of northern Muslims.

We fail to see how this amount can qualify as the direct benefit that we are deriving as a nation from this agreement which is so disproportionally skewed in favour of the United States of America.

But, the congressman believes the data is skewed in favor of the downtown location.

There were times during the campaign when the coverage did seem skewed in Labour's favour.»

There is reason to suppose that the public cynicism is the by - product of the President's Northernisation Agenda, as it is being carried into effect by his lopsided strategic appointments which are so manifestly skewed in favour of the North and against the South.