RapidcreekAutomakers Want AM Radios Out of Cars. Congress Is About to Require Them
This is an absurd abuse of government power, which “small government” Republicans are going along with because the AM radio listening audience skews right. By the same logic, I suppose the next step is to force homeowners to subscribe to a landline and cable TV.
This is an aside. Using the term “skews” the way you did is common and incorrect. Generally, it’d be best to avoid the word skew when referring to right leaning or left leaning political ideas.
Why? Because a “Right Skew” would mean the data clusters to the left. And vice versa.
Google it! I swear!
It’s a pet peeve of mine. Not when people say it, just that it’s wrong even though it sounds right.
Carry on.
I like pedantry as much as the next person, but skew is a regular English word as well as a statistical term. It’s clear here which usage they meant.
The context they used it was the statistical term, though.
They aren’t describing something appearance. They’re describing the nature of the distribution.
They then are describing the visual aesthetic of the distribution. This is exactly my point. It stands.
No it wasn’t
Yes it was.
The word “skew” cannot apply to a population in any other sense than a statistical sense. It cant be stretched and malformed as the nonstatistical definition would suggest.