Sentences with phrase «very skewed»

Because of the very skewed distribution (skewness = 3.27 and kurtosis = 11.97) the outcome measure was recoded as a binomial variable (median split), in which 0 indicated a low Disgust mean and 1 a high Disgust mean.

The rules for applying for Federal jobs changed a couple of years ago, and they are very skewed towards current employees and Veterans.

And, human nature being what it is, one bad experience (even if it was because the user was not aware of the procedures) can send a user into «vent mode» and result in very skewed Poloniex exchange reviews.

Factor in the omitted headphone jack of the iPhone 7 and this part of the comparison seems very skewed in favor of the Android camp.

However, he remembers being persuaded by the Oxford group (Frame, Allen, Stainforth, etc, I assume) and other statisticians that by doing this simple inversion F&G were inadvertently assuming a very skewed and unrealistic prior themselves.

It is very skewed by the questions asked, and the considerations deliberately left out of the answers.

Classes doing little projects — some of sound environmental value, but most very skewed and very ignorant of any inkling of fact.

Clearly ignoring the benefits can lead to a very skewed evaluation of environmental regulations.

Very disappointed that people base there opinions on media coverage (which is very skewed and more often then not call a dog a pit bull only to find out it was not) and fear.

Also, while you mention that typically being able to do a Roth Conversion is advantageous in retirement or periods of low income, your reccomendations are very skewed to the Roth end of the spectrum vs. traditional buckets like IRA, 401 (k).

Wow, that is a very skewed look at where my taxes go.

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

Earlier this year I answered a post on the numbers of new releases from publishers divided by sex, and looking at «newness» Back then the traditional publishers were skewed marginally female, and if you took out the long established authors and just did the 3 book or less than 10 years in publishing — very skewed to female.

I realised i knew far more than the classes thought, and worse, sometimes an MFA can give you a very skewed view of being a writer in the digital world (read: pro traditional publishing)

Typically, I feel overwhelmed in multiplayer games because the skill curve between me and other players is very skewed.

Most people have a very skewed ratio of omega - 3 / 6 fats in their which will create many symptoms of illness such as frequent colds and spring allergies.

Furthermore, the distribution is very skewed: On any given day, five out of six unemployed people are not doing any job - hunting at all and the sixth is putting in 3 hours.

Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.

A possible problem with this approach (not sure if this data compensates for that) is that political contributions might get very skewed by a few extra rich CEOs (and many software CEOs are liberal, so if that's the case they could easily dominate the data).

Most of these developmental experiences are done without proper supervision, correction or effective discipline, and are often dealt with via harsh discipline, isolation to cribs or beds, or, more simply, placing all of the older children in a room together without toys, games, or recreation under adult supervision which leads to chaos and confusion and a very skewed sense of a family hierarchy.

Or do you just follow the literature you learned in your medical training; which can be very skewed - just as all the statistics you shot off in your rant.

Some teenagers are dogmatic and judgmental of each other and if these conversations took place only in the hallways of the school, the view of breastfeeding and the shared knowledge base could end up very skewed.

I am for equality but this article has a very skewed take.

I don't consider him a subject matter expert in anything but his own opinions, which by the way are very skewed and do not contribute to an intelligent conversation.

I am convinced that most of us Christians and many of our churches have a very skewed idea of who Jesus was, so while we think we are living like Jesus, we may actually be living like Judas.

You have a VERY skewed sense of what is happening in the real world.

«You had wealth creation that could not be tied to the underlying economy,» he added, «and the benefits were very skewed: they went to the assets of the rich.

«It's really very skewed toward higher - income families, which is the biggest problem with it,» says Angela Rachidi, a research fellow in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Not exact matches

But the letter writers and their allies argue that at the very least the Fed's lack of representation could be skewing the way policymakers view the economy.

The MOVE index suggested that US Treasury volatility was expected to be very low, while the flat swaption skew for the 10 - year Treasury note denoted a low demand to hedge higher interest rate risks, even on the eve of the inception of the Fed's balance sheet normalization (Graph 9, right - hand panel).

«When we started UpWest,» says Galili, «we thought the age [of the founders we'd back] would skew very young.

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.

Again, very flawed and skewed world - view, and drastic generalizations.

But this abundance comes at a very high cost and with a skewed accounting system.

So the comparison is skewed and generalistic — which is a very common Christian motif when reading passages from the generalistic texts that were written.

It's really very simple, and it's a non-issue that is being spouted as an «assault» in a desperate attempt to skew voters to the GOP side of the election.

At the intellectual level, Protestants in general know very little about what Catholicism really is, and what they do know is often skewed from generations of mistrust between Catholics and Protestants.

I am very tired of the skewed memories of some self - ritcheous fans.

But you would have to say that their stats must be slightly skewed by virtue of the fact they have each other in a very cautious 2 CDM set - up.

Simon Kuper and Stefan Sysmanski note in Why England Lose that the premium paid on Brazilians skews the market, and quote an agent: «Irrespective of talent, it is very seductive to have a Brazilian in your team».

Whilst it is important that brands such as Ferrari remain in F1, the skewed distribution of funds awarded at the end of each season very much remains a problem.

In fact, while some brands of tests on the market today promise that they can give accurate results even before a missed period, it is still very possible to get skewed readings that early.

Their targeting seems appropriate at first glance, since the Military Channel is going to skew older, white and conservative (and if the other ads on the channel are any indicator, very willing to spend money on «collectibles»).

I am left confused because I am wondering why the petitioners weren't bold enough to ask the party to also call the founder to order or take a disciplinary action against him too, certainly it therefore defeats the ideals of fairness and justice that they sought to seek for which the quoted article 47 of the NDC party constitution as basis for their action; does it grant some immunity to the former president, I doubt and therefore see the action of the petitioners very flawed and skewed.

And it's very easy for a media person to skew things exactly the way you mention - just cover controversies on one side more than the other (how many corruprtion stories about GOP ran in 2006?

«We are very aware that there may be some attempt here to skew the results.

«When money counts as speech, being able to give unlimited amounts skews an already broken system into a battleground for only the very top of the 1 percent.»

If you consider that the postal votes in Harrow skew quite heavily in the Tories favour they probably got very close to Labour in wards like West Harrow.

Central New York Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) said Thursday it would be very bad if a memo from the House Intelligence Committee shows people with political motivations skewed special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into ties between Russia and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

«The newborn mice inherited a very altered, skewed population of microbes,» said Eugene B. Chang, MD, Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Director of the Microbiome Medicine Program of the Microbiome Center, and senior author of the study, published this week in the journal Cell Reports.