The skewed incentives distorted our economy and our society.

The political system is deeply skewed against challenges to the two incumbent parties.

Or reporting about aid programs may be skewed to keep donor funds flowing.

The wealth gap between China s urban and rural regions has badly skewed China s education.

Professional trolling, in that sense, is just another manipulation tool. It presents a conveniently skewed picture.

It is a skewed playing field and one increasingly skewed against smaller players. Who wouldn t prefer a credit default swap underwritten by the US or UK government no wonder that too big to fail institutions dominate this market.

This is difficult, given that a skewed income distribution is usually a legacy of a country s history.

So too tax breaks and other privileges that skewed the playing field in favor of a select few.

But Borlaug s death at 95 also is a reminder of how skewed our system of values has become.

Poverty, underdevelopment, and mal development result from macroeconomic and industrial policies, skewed income distribution, and flawed market infrastructures.

Risk aversion has gone hand in hand with skewed institutional priorities, as is evident in the Bank s budget.

If Japan s status quo is to change, the country s oddly skewed relationship with the US is one key factor.

We busted stereotypes and skewed narratives about African countries throughout the year, including answering common questions about Cameroon and Madagascar.

What many fail to recognize is that these are merely the symptoms of a single underlying problem China s skewed growth model.

Although the March 14 coalition already controlled Parliament, its majority had been repeatedly attacked as the result of a severely skewed election law.

But food is so addictive, and the environment so skewed toward unhealthy outcomes, that it is time to think about broader government intervention.

This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.

Analysis of social media often provides a skewed opinion and set of information when one is limited only to like minded bloggers who speak English.

But, owing to China s skewed economic structure, its exchange rate regime presents much more challenging problems than those encountered by Japan and other East Asian economies.

Their population pyramids are now skewed towards middle aged people who are in their most productive years and relatively free from the burden of raising children.

At a time when both internet infrastructure and resources are heavily skewed towards those communicating in Latin script, the creation of Potaka is a welcome change.

Their activity underlines how Twitter's popularity and engagement scores can be artificially skewed, a factor of importance to social media analysts whose research may rely on such metrics.

If things are left as they are, writes Watanabe, a skewed perception of history without knowledge of the horrors of the war will be handed down to future generations.

Two late tries may have skewed the final result somewhat, but there is no doubt Ayr deserved to triumph in this wonderfully entertaining Tennent's Premiership match of the day.

This has led to a somewhat skewed perception of Japanese cuisine, as common Japanese dishes the cheap and delicious meals enjoyed daily by average people are sorely underrepresented abroad.

The resulting conflicts of interest can make employee governance costly, both by complicating the process of decision making and by producing decisions skewed toward the interests of dominant employee groups.

Or reporting about aid programs may be skewed to keep donor funds flowing. The greatest danger is that humanitarian relief will be tailored to meet donors demands, rather than actual needs.

Because the percentage of geolocated tweets is so negligible, studies relying only on these tweets will almost surely have a skewed view of the Twitterverse, especially over short periods of time.

I could be wrong that the agenda, when it is finally revealed, will be a flop, a collection of butt buddies brought in to present a skewed shadow of Bursting the Bubble excellence.

The results for extreme pessimism were skewed in the opposite direction 14 of Sunnis thought things were as bad as could be, while only 2 of Kurds and 3 of Shi ites shared this opinion.

Mirroring the skewed media coverage that plagued her during her time as an online superstar, several Western media outlets have described her as the Kim Kardashian of Pakistan in the wake of her death.

To outsiders, the most peculiar thing about America's rising inequality is that so few Americans object. Surely a society with a skewed income distribution is worse off than one in which incomes are more equal.

Poverty is endemic, with more than three quarters of Nigerians living on less than US 2 per day and distribution of income more skewed in favor of the rich than anywhere else in the world.

This will happen at a time when the country s skewed demographics causes the workforce to shrink and the flow of migration from rural areas to cities to slow (the rural population now disproportionately comprises the elderly).

If we have been talking about high approval ratings for months, and now the government has won with an absolute majority, why is it that we are still hearing criticism about skewed polling or farcical elections.

China s income distribution has become highly skewed at 0.438, the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, puts the country closer to the United States than to northern Europe s egalitarian societies (with the exception of the United Kingdom).

Relaxing the one child policy might have some positive impact in the very long run, but China is already past the tipping point, pushed there by the combined effect of gender imbalance and a very skewed age structure.

Another consequence of China s skewed growth model has been a decline in household income as a share of GDP, from 70 in 1990 to 60 in 2009, whereas in the US, for example, the ratio has remained stable, at around 80 of GDP.

Song selection was based upon a system of points, whereby all three members would award marks out of ten to each candidate song, a system skewed somewhat by Wright's decision to award his songs ten points each, and the other songs no points.

Weak economic performance in these countries is even more puzzling in view of the sharp drop in their birthrates decades ago. Their population pyramids are now skewed towards middle aged people who are in their most productive years and relatively free from the burden of raising children.

Getting stuck in transition is a third possible scenario, with Libya remaining in a gray zone neither a fully fledged democracy nor a dictatorship, but semi free. This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.

Delporte drew the boundaries along vertical and horizontal lines of right ascension and declination however, he did so for the epoch B1875.0, which means that due to precession of the equinoxes, the borders on a modern star map (e.g., for epoch J2000) are already somewhat skewed and no longer perfectly vertical or horizontal.

To get the economy going, some people will, in fact, have to bear some pain, but the increasingly skewed income distribution gives clear guidance to whom this should be Approximately a quarter of all income in the US now goes to the top 1 , while most Americans income is lower today than it was a dozen years ago.