But this hypothesis was based on skewed, outdated research.
But what do you do when risk and reward are skewed?
That skewed view - and not some lack of aptitude - may be what keeps girls from pursuing math and science as a career.
Fitch reasoned that the costs facing BP could be "skewed much more heavily towards the near term" than had been thought.
It's also the victors' museum, of course, and skewed in their favour, but the Americans looking around with me - and there are many of them - are talkative and engaged.
It should be either approximately normal, bimodal, or skewed distribution.
Liberal critics have long asserted that dogmatic devotion to market forces has skewed American society toward those of greatest means.
This is called an objective perspective - one that is not skewed or distorted by what you are afraid is going to happen or not happen.
The boat skewed off course.
Including unplanned home births, inevitably more dangerous, may have skewed the data.
If the equivalence principle were violated, the moon's orbit around the Earth would appear skewed, either towards or away from the sun.
His conception of human nature is skewed.
If enough parents deliberately or unintentionally avoided reporting delayed development, the findings could be skewed, the researchers said.
However, uneven growth across countries is also associated with the emergence of some sizable imbalances in the world economy, including rising oil prices and skewed balance of payments' positions.
It has a bad product portfolio, with not only the Chrysler brand but Dodge skewed towards the US, and trucks and vans.
Its economy is heavily skewed to older industries. Its educational system is ramshackle.
The teacher skewed at the him angrily.
I was a repository for their skewed perspectives on my country, for their dreams of a better life.
Yet if you were to use a translation tool to try to make sense of such reports, you could end up with a rather skewed and surreal view of the world.
Migratory birds that pass through the Arctic have decreased an average of 6 percent, although that number is skewed by a "dramatic increase" in some populations of migratory geese.
