Sentences with phrase «skewed picture»

Thus, the old index gave a somewhat positively skewed picture of the underlying securities» performance.

The venue of the first race does skew the picture slightly and it might be better to reassess the overtaking «problem» after a few more races.

Applying this broad, imprecise income data to gauge the health of a high - performing market segment greatly skews the picture.

Investors are not obligated to put all their cards on the table, so a skewed picture can result.

We end up with a skewed picture of an entire religion.

When you have unequal attrition you lose part of the information for one group of study participants and this means when you analyze the information for the people who are left in your study you get a skewed picture of what is happening.

Scientists have a skewed picture of Earth's biodiversity because they tend to ignore the microscopic life that is literally underfoot.

A common rhetorical technique used to portray a skewed picture is the technique of cherry picking.

With Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and Ben Affleck's correctenjoyable thriller Argo expectant, it only leaves Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master in the traditional berth of serious, adult - skewed pictures that have traditionally dominated Oscar nominations.

«His partial and skewed picture is no reflection of the great success of the multi-academy trust model as a whole, which is transforming England's schools and creating the conditions for educational excellence across the country.»

It is worth getting the photo taken professionally as a poorly lit, out of focus or slightly skewed picture will do you no favours.