skewness
/ˈskjunəs/
noun
- The quality of being not straight, level, or symmetrical; a slant or tilt.
- We noticed a slight skewness in the bookshelf, so we adjusted the legs.
- The skewness of the old tower made it look like it might fall over.
- The artist used skewness in the painting to create a sense of movement.
- In statistics, a measure of how much a set of data is not symmetrical; how much it leans to one side.
- When analyzing income data, skewness often appears because a small number of people earn much more than the rest.
- The statistician calculated the skewness to understand if the data was evenly distributed.
- The skewness of the test scores showed that most students did very well, with only a few low scores.
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