Meaning & use
skew
To distort or bias something so it is no longer accurate, balanced, or straight.
See it in a sentence
A few extremely wealthy respondents can skew the average income for the whole survey.
The old photograph was skewed slightly to one side when it was scanned.
A note on using this word
Skew is common in statistics to describe a distribution that leans unevenly to one side rather than being symmetrical.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
balance
Another way to use it
2. noun
A distortion or bias, especially an uneven lean in data or results.
Researchers corrected for the skew caused by an unusually young sample group.
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