skew

Vocabulary Word

Definition

'Skew' is when something doesn't evenly represent all the aspects it should. Like when an argument only focuses on one side, it's skewed. It's not balanced and tends to favor one part more than others.

Examples in Different Contexts

In market research, improperly collected data can 'skew' results. A business analyst might caution, 'If we don't sample a diverse group, our findings might be skewed towards a particular demographic.'

Practice Scenarios

Business

Scenario:

We have noticed that our user feedback is heavily from eastern states. This could influence our overall understanding of the user experience.

Response:

We need to diversify our feedback sources to avoid a skew towards any particular region.

Tech

Scenario:

There seems to be an uneven distribution of the workload between servers which could lead to performance issues.

Response:

We need to balance the workload across servers to avoid any skew in the data processing.