There, selective poaching of males has led to a dramatic skew in the sex ratio.
We keep talking about all the demographics that skew in the Democrats' favor in presidential election years.
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It may be coincidence or a skew in our sample, but the tone of these books is distinctly pessimistic.
Professor Siegel counters this assertion by noting that the 10-year look-back contains a skew in earnings data associated with the financial sector during the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
While the Lean In groups seem to skew toward women in their 20s and 30s, there's certainly a range.
Numbers for March are seen as a true indicator for the sector, as the Chinese New Year holidays skew the data in January and February.
Instead of carriers trying to outprice and out-innovate each other, he said, they will set up regulatory offices to try and skew the rules in their favor.
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The date of the referendum has been met with concern that it undermines the importance of the devolved legislatures and could skew the results in those areas where other elections are being held.
Remember, after all, that the Oscars had to reconfigure the nominating process because of voting shenanigans by members trying to heavily skew the ballots in favor of their top choices and against other options.
"The danger is that with cuts to police budgets, police commissioners with the power to hire and fire police chiefs, this is really going to skew police resources in a political way, " she said.
We've been wondering how much the first full month of iPhone 5 sales would skew US market share in October.
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The website relies on reported incidences of crime, he says, and there has been criticism that it may skew perceptions because people in wealthier areas are more likely to report offending.
MPs also concluded the bundling together of train manufacture and financing in large procurement exercises would skew the market towards larger multinational firms, possibly at the expense of excellence in train design and domestic manufacturing.
The Mid-Year Economic Report by the National Small Business Association, an advocacy group for small business in which members skew toward established firms, found that small business owners are much less optimistic about both the economy and the fate of their own firms than when the last survey was released six months ago.
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Stephen Walters, chief economist at JP Morgan, said there was some "static" in the data with volatility in high density housing data in New South Wales helping to skew the result, but added it was still clear that a downtrend is underway in housing.
In addition, this skew toward giant sizes generally happened toward the end of major time periods, such as the Late Triassic, Late Jurassic and Late Cretaceous.
I'm just trying to remind you that any dramatic market run-up is going to skew your sector weightings, which in turn will compound any damage when prices retreat.
The skew means a problem that is moderate in absolute terms could still clobber big parts of the system.
In America these tend to skew the results towards the Democrats.
On Monday, MMM saw a skew toward the bearish end of the spectrum in the options pits.
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Or, if a lender runs a credit check and sees a higher score than the one consumers received in their own research, expectations could skew the negotiations.
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Winning a Super Bowl failed to skew our results either, or at least not in the case of the New York Giants, who are coming off their second championship in five years.
Just a few fatal crashes can skew the results because they are assigned a cost value in the millions of dollars.
My position perhaps more clearly stated is that if all markets were clearing then phenomena such as: lack of educational improvement, globalization, de-industrialization, skew of technological improvement towards information technology, energy shortages, etc would show up in wages.
Tory MPs were also annoyed at the prospect of a referendum on AV being held on the same day as elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which they argued would "skew" the result because turnout would differ across the UK. Plaid Cymru, the DUP and SNP have also complained about the date.
When it comes to new series, media buyers are forced to rely on differentiators like night of the week (Thursday nights, for instance, are more desirable than Friday nights, and are thus more expensive), expected demographic (shows that skew younger tend to be more attractive) and the newcomer's lead-in show (or shows, in the case of a programming block like Fox's Sunday-night animation domination).
In the days studied, there were no "mistake fares" at ridiculously low prices that could skew results.
In other words, we needed entry and exit and position-size methodologies that would allow us to skew the risk-reward profile, that would allow us to end up with a larger magnitude of profits than losses.
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