skewed

How To Use skewed In A Sentence

• Over this long weekend in Melbourne I've been researching Indian mid-tier (50-1000 employees skewed towards 5yrs+ comp sci education/experience), good at open source, B2C, web2: Not the big BPO/B2B focused Satyams, Wipros and Tatas, or the elance $1000 dodgey script dudes. How Will the Indians Fare at The Web 2.0 World Cup Cricket ?
• Hannah's remembrances of things past, however, are sometimes skewed by subtle dissonances and a sense of anxiety that disturb the apparent placidity of his picture-perfect world.
• In a statement, Spitzer declared that, "When a record label engages in an elaborate scheme to purchase air time for its artists, it violates state and federal law and presents consumers with a skewed picture of the country's proclaimed 'best' and 'most popular' music" He added that payola smites struggling artists, who aren't being judged on their talents. Hot Wax: Spitzer Says EMI Settles Payola Probe
• The reaction to what was seen as Hodgson's rather skewed perspective contributed to the campaign to have the manager defenestrated.
• All reading times were converted to words read per minute, then transformed to base 10 logarithms for the analyses because they were positively skewed.
• They would know that their statements are going to be subject to widespread scrutiny, rather than just skewed media scandalmongering.
• Maxine is correct about the way which this development has skewed the incentives which young talented people face (as a college student I have firsthand knowledge of this, the vast majority of people want to go into banking, consulting, or another part of the financial sector). Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy
• They feared that if only "undercounted" ballots were examined, the results would be skewed to favor Gore. War Of The Weary
• The ball skewed off at a right angle.
• The statistical data show the weight distribution is a highly skewed right distribution.