Skewed perception refers to having an inaccurate or distorted view of something or someone. It means that our understanding or judgment is not based on reality or facts, and is instead influenced by biases, prejudices, or misconceptions.
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«Living alone for so many years
skews your perception of what is an appropriate amount of stuff to keep, store, and save,» he said.
For Dawson, historical associations have a part to play
in skewing perceptions of value for arcade - style games.
The artist tells a story both familiar and fantastic woven
with skewed perceptions and shaped by suggestive moments that tease the viewer into participating in a fiction that implicates reality within its idiosyncrasies.
Certainly, the Premier League is now so extravagantly wealthy — with even larger riches about to flow from a vast new TV deal — it is easy to see how
skewed perceptions about the value of European competition could take hold.
These mental shortcuts may let us make quick decisions, but this oversimplification
often skews our perception and gets in the way of calm, rational thinking.
Though the clearest manifestation of wilful blindness may be the way we overlook the flaws of our loved ones, it can just as
easily skew our perceptions of ideas.
He added that slower growth amongst the nation's top craft manufacturers had impacted year - end production figures as well,
perhaps skewing the perception of industry growth over all.
You might find stuff that would've been nice to learn from the guy directly, or you could form an even
more skewed perception of who you anticipate him to be.
Not only are most receiving an inadequate education, but also the sheer size of the
group skews the perception of performance of charter schools as a whole.
Given that I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world (Oslo), I think I now have a
very skewed perception of the word «budget».
Based on the forgoing, I still believe one - third is an overly generous estimate, especially because non-racialized persons in particular tend to
unconsciously skew perceptions on this, particularly if emerging from a context absent of diversity (due to anchoring bias, attention bias, clustering illusion, and potentially an outgroup homogeneity bias).
The biggest problem with using Social Media for your news content is a phenomenon called the «Social Bubble,» in which you only hear about news from people / groups you agree with,
which skews your perception of the world.
On the other hand, patients like Matzke and Epstein could
skew perceptions about mind - body effects through a form of reporting bias called the survivor effect.
It leads to
a skewed perception of reality, flawed reasoning, and bad decision - making.
So if a Republican senator mostly hears from GOP constituents, and these constituents are more likely to be really passionate about the issue since they are on the side that opposes stricter laws, that's going to give the senator
a skewed perception of where voters are on this topic.
With all due respect to Nate, I believe is puffed up with
a skewed perception of his own popularity because of the McGregor effect.
It's funny how the slightest change can
skew our perception.
Though slow motion may provide a better look at real - time events that happened quickly or in a chaotic environment, the researchers recognize that it can
skew perception.
The Don was a loopy aristocrat with odd delusions of chivalry and
a skewed perception of reality that led him — among other adventures — to imagine that a windmill was a giant against which he was honor - bound to battle.
«The balancing act between the presentation of the realistic and the dramatic can actually result in
a skewed perception of reality among television viewers,» the authors warned.
Plant - Based Protein: Flexing Your Biceps and Your Brain - There's
a skewed perception that in order to build muscle and be strong we need to consume food and supplements that contain animal - based proteins.
There's
a skewed perception that in order to build muscle and be strong we need to consume food and supplements that contain animal - based proteins.
Unfortunately there's
a skewed perception that in order to build muscle and be strong we need to consume food and supplements that contain animal - based proteins.
My mom's logic apparently was that she didn't want me to have
a skewed perception of what beauty was.
Where Denis Villeneuve's 2016 sci - fi thriller «Arrival» succeeded in capturing our often -
skewed perception of time, raw grief, the existence of a higher power and the expansive depths of the universe, Garland's («Ex Machina») equally heady Annihilation compresses human emotion into lichen and mutating cells.
Because we perceive reality based on a tiny sliver of information, if that information is unbalanced (e.g., ignores the positive and focuses on the negative), we are left with
a skewed perception of reality, or a thought hole.
Policies on N - size and small / new school reporting could mean that, in practice, less performance data is available on charter schools OR lead to
a skewed perception of charter school performance.
I had recently driven the Honda Civic Si, which has perfect, perfect shifter feel, so that may have
skewed my perception.
I'm not saying she was right on wither count, but she had a fatalistic streak that could very well have
skewed her perception of events.
We also have
a skewed perception of our own writing.
The skewed perceptions that bipolar creates is often difficult to navigate.
Even if investors believed that markets were efficient, a drop of this amount might
skew their perception of risk, he said.
There is a growing resentment amongst users that the more vocal crowd are
skewing this perception that most people get motion sickness from full locomotion and thus we have seen most early game developers playing it safe with teleportation based games.
Yadegaran, Jessica, «
Skewed Perceptions,» The Daily Aztec, February 6, 1997, p. 7 [ill.].
It also speaks to
the skewed perception of many «northerners» who import an exotic ingredient from a distant warm climate to eat on a daily basis.