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One factor long hypothesized to influence the skew in male mating success in a population is the temporal distribution of fertilizable females.
The most important effect of the skew in angle is the raised plateau of entrance court created in the eastern corner.
But, to forestall a rebellion among the unemployed, they skew the numbers each month to make the problem seem far less than it is.
The Big Board has plenty of preferred stock, foreign stocks, and closed-end bond funds that could skew the figures.
The skew to an equal number of boys and girls, and to an older demo, allowing for a trickle-down to younger ones, has also propelled the phenom.
By the 1980s, however, her waywardness, failing health and fading interest in contemporary music began to skew the quality of her output.
Finally, the presence of utility rebates or other financial incentives tends to skew acceptance of new devices.
We devised the question sets to be, as far as possible, at the same level of difficulty in order not to bias or skew the overall results.
They grab tickets en masse for scalpers, lurk in chat rooms to hand out ads, skew recommendation systems, and scrape pricing data.
Also, the loss of perishable foods may skew data on restaurant sales and grocery store receipts.
In recent years we have seen more of a skew towards the High Arts and the Arts that people from more affluent suburbs tend to enjoy.
We used a log transformation for the alcohol problem index because of the strong positive skew of the variable.
Empirical data, however, did not always detect a statistically significant skew toward rare alleles in the allele frequency distribution.
The sample odds ratio is limited at the lower end, since it cannot be negative, but not at the upper end, and so has a skew distribution.
Further, it has the potential to skew the focus of the inquiry away from what is really in issue.
Previous work has shown that recurrent selective sweeps lead to a strong skew in the frequency spectrum toward an excess of rare variants.
I hope that he does say something a little off skew and controversial on the show to spice things up.
What syndicated studies there are tend to skew upscale and can't be generalized to the total population.
Western marketing techniques can skew traditional artistic expression by promoting one type of expression over another.
On the upside, I just discussed with my AP Government class how a poll can skew results by how they phrase a question and how important it was to be polling on salient issues.
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Examples from Classical Literature
That'll make everyone skew all weird and screwy, and make everyone look guilty.
If it is more than a quarter of an inch it should be sized and then removed by the skew.
To take away the prized American value of secret ballots in order to skew the results in favor of one side would be a huge mistake.
Typically, these reports offer projections that are hard to prove and easy to skew toward the rosiest of outlooks.
I entreat you to give me permission to skew your ten stanzas to the abbe.
The window, in the skew side of the room, had shabby red curtains.
Skew corbel, a stone placed at the base of the sloping side of a gable wall to resist any sliding tendency of the sloping coping.
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