Sentences with phrase «skewed picture of»

The reason that I went back to Mencius was that the world over, including the Chinese, finally dawned that the western modern science and technology had so over shadowed and skewed the picture of civilization of Mankind that many of the advances of humanity were made by other cultures and civilizations were either ignored or misinterpreted.

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

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

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

When people read old testament stories they do not research them or pray about them but see them as page value, this is wrong and we get a skewed picture of Yahweh.

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Critics of the amendment have said the language on the ballot gives a skewed and overly rosy picture of expanded gambling in New York.

This afternoon I will present some new polling about the national picture, conducted immediately before the conference season to avoid any skewing effect from the coverage of the Labour and Lib Dem conferences.

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

This kind of fragmentation would have skewed the earlier genetic results: Estimates like that 2 - in - 10,000 number described the local populations and their regional histories but missed the big picture.

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.

Now, we understand that the MTV audience skews decidedly younger than, say, the Motion Picture Academy, but as members of MTV's audience back then, we feel safe in declaring that this was «Jurassic Park's» award to lose.

«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's not been long enough to get a really good picture of what the new KU payouts will bring, and my July month - to - date results are skewed by the fact that I ran a free BookBub promotion July 3 - 7 (Note: 34077 free downloads) for Swindle Town, Book 5 in my Gen Delacourt Mystery Series.

So instead of stopping at the point where ebook sales appear to be plateauing, Jane Tappuni looks at how different genres are performing in digital, and how, in turn, that skews the overall picture.

Conscious of our skewed perspectives, we must look to the data to provide the complete picture and guide our adoption policies.

The US OXM's a great magazine, and while I can't say I'm similarly impressed with the Australian version (which definitely skews a hell of a lot younger) at least they both seem to stay well away from the pictures of Mario shooting Sonic in the testicles with a machine gun that we used to see on reader art pages in Nintendo Magazine System.

If it is predicated on 50 years of climate patterns including El Nino's then it may be skewed in a way that does not give the best picture.

The record is skewed because of cloudy days where the (close to) real temperature is included, or the air conditioner (different picture, same problem) is turned off, and so on.

From the standpoint of ROI, disinterested recipients skew response patterns and email metrics (e.g., bring down open rates), thus making it harder to obtain an accurate picture of the success of one's email marketing programs.

Congress and the public were misled by skewed numbers, painting a dishonest picture of court dynamics and displaying an indifference to public safety and national security.

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

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