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Awad’s picture is skewed and yellowed
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He shows Al Snafu some skewed and mostly
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I could touch it without whimpering, and somehow found comfort in the strangely skewed ridge that had formed at the top of my septum
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She withdrew from her mother and no matter how desperate the look in her mother’s alcohol skewed eyes, she would not be drawn back into the bosom of her mother’s awful love, which is why, as the days passed and the new song hit the headlines and the airwaves, the only person who knew anything of it or enjoyed its strange and comforting melodies was Lucy, who saw no reason to share her comfort with anyone else
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skewed eyes, she would not be drawn back into the bosom of her
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Fortunately the second box, the one containing the brain-fry mixture, hit the floor and tipped to the left and the doctor thinks that most of the bad sachets have fallen to the left of the skewed table leg
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Disharmony only takes place when religion has been skewed due to ignorance or ill intention of the people who document and edit the teachings, and not by error of its source
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This misconception of punishment could be due to their skewed belief systems prior to their passing
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Even after all she had been through, all that she was still going through, her vision still had not been skewed
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In an instant, she was knocked out and the vehicle skewed off the road and into a deserted hedge
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He noted the lyrics, beat, guitars, every part of the musical performance was bent, skewed, twisted, and filtered
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The results already proved it, or were skewed as Tony
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An old, brain skewed hand with a history of violence
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The One who will return would be surprised at how this servanthood of the overseers had been skewed into the direct opposite of what he had taught
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“Well, what are the chances of having another skewed necked cat? Ask your husband
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“All seven of you have surpassed wizards with twenty times your experience; it’s just that your perspective is skewed because you only know high-level wizards
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“That the media is skewed is
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What it often means is we don't see something as a priority or perhaps we have our priorities slightly skewed
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Of course my perception of the past could be skewed by
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“You are a new race still, and though you have learned much of the rules of reality, some of your experimental results have been deliberately skewed by others, to hide the secret of our power
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“Even if what he says of his own forces is true, his estimate of our comparative strengths is skewed! While only a fifth of our population are professionally trained as warriors, another two-fifths can fight effectively, and they will if they have to! And while most of our fighters are not wizards, they are supplied with fearsome magically enhanced equipment, which we know from our prisoners that the Sylvan do not use!”
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do this interpreting, when we sort through the skewed
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skewed, they had repaired them as quickly as they could,
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hypothesize that besides a skewed physician distribution the reasons for this
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By 1970, swarms of penniless youths, having heard tales of wondrous hospitality, were cadging their way around the southern Mediterranean and across the Middle East as far as India, deliberately bludging off the inhabitants whose hospitality soon curdled to hostility when they realised they were being used by the relatively wealthy youth of Europe who would return home boasting how they had stayed in someone’s house, been taken everywhere and treated like a prince – and it hadn’t cost them a penny! Just like the way world trade is skewed for the benefit of Europe and the U
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skewed perspective, the journey would be almost instantaneous
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Psychotherapy will be helpful in cases in which psychological factors like skewed thought patterns are identified to have caused depression
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Concern skewed Skeets face
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She tried to stab him in the eye, but he skewed his head and grabbed her two arms
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own skewed perceptions and assumptions, rather than seeing it
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Desperation had skewed Laura’s reasoning, as did the loss of her dog
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” A slight smile skewed his face, and he chuckled
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His pale blue shirt was undone at the collar, exposing his thick but well-tanned neck, and his solid yellow tie was partially loosened, hanging at a skewed angle and giving the impression of intense, draining work on a complex case
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‘Your teachers seem to think that you have a very skewed understanding of
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cost of capital, any attempts at minimization of that cost would be skewed
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The cost of equity is skewed upwards
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months of one year, the CAPM would be skewed in that direction
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changes in equity and earnings that may be totally skewed
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The stage was set for a recovery and expansion that were highly skewed
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and percentages are skewed even though medians and not means were used to average
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and so this technique should not be applied to highly skewed data
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highly skewed Creating a “ball park” estimate is better than having none at all, only if we
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However, if the number is not representative of a trend (it is heavily skewed in one of the measured years), it should be replaced by a more representative
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history manipulation, skewed the results of my research, and lost vital information necessary to complete the statistical overview necessary to set up the next experiment,” Hades protested
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Had the moon had any substance, their course would have already been skewed by the new gravitational forces
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The binary options field is skewed against you, the trader
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The TRP system in India is highly skewed and contentious
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Before mankind skewed the delicately-attuned working relationship between those three, here’s how it went
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Skewed as it was, their household and family seemed more “normal” to the girl than her own, with mom’s bruises and dad’s frequent absences
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” Tit for tat gets skewed
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reality’s been skewed by all of that silicone
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been skewed by a large number of dropouts in the placebo group who fared poorly but
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completely skewed, and she felt disoriented and off kilter
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” Her smile was more than slightly skewed, and her beauty faded away, replaced by the ugliness in her heart and soul as she tied me to the chair I sat in
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I was sort of surprised that the agreement was still honored to this day, considering you couldn’t trust a Wilcox any farther than you could throw him (or her…although they skewed heavily toward warlocks and not witches)
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Who was to say that the person writing the records hadn’t thought that certain things were of more interest than others and given precedence to them, therefore giving a skewed angle to the story? He would be writing his own history and it would be perfectly recorded
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Everything is skewed and viewed through
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because the scales are unjustly skewed to benefit the rich and cheat everyone else
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Skewed reasoning aside, I was essentially stealing this horse
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reality is negatively skewed and everyone is forced to struggle through an existence that is a true
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I’m sitting there one day and thinking that the big picture is pretty skewed
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It was amazing, Caris thought, how the truth could be just a little skewed so that it sounded sinister
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His hair has been combed hard to one side, and his loose cotton shirt has bunched up behind his shoulders so that his collar is skewed
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Even though it correctly called itself “the leading patient-directed national organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses,” DBSA was less politically powerful than NAMI, which did its best to speak in Washington for all serious mental illness but skewed toward families with members disabled by schizophrenia and the most debilitating mood disorders
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And if he skewed toward the needs of those most disabled by mental illness, he came by that bias honestly: his daughter’s illness, which had inspired all the advocacy he and his wife did, was much more disabling than mine
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How could these strangers possibly understand what Will and I had been to each other during that time? How could I explain the way we had so swiftly understood each other, the shorthand jokes, the blunt truths and raw secrets? How could I convey the way those short months had changed the way I felt about everything? The way he had skewed my world so totally that it made no sense without him in it?
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A stop-sign was skewed, its angles foreshortened
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However, if that large stop happened to be hit on the very first trade, your perception would likely be skewed, and you would probably approach future scenarios with a different mind-set
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In the case of the short premium options trader, there is unseen large left-tail risk, but in other cases, the risks may be dramatically skewed to the upside
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Which of these carries more risk: a fund that will return 5 percent annually with a 10 percent standard deviation or a fund that will return 5 percent annually with an asymmetrical risk profile extending 5 percent downward and 15 percent upward? The second fund has dramatically higher variability, but all of the extra “risk” is skewed to the upside—in this case, variability is opportunity, not risk, as we saw earlier with fixed fractional position sizing
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Index hedges have different characteristics from equity hedges and are often quite skewed to the put side
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It thus appears that, when emotions are frothy among stocks, returns have been skewed to the bullish side
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If you are aggressively saving for early retirement, then the results of the 70-80 method tend to be particularly skewed
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The results of such a “poll” will be heavily skewed by the indicators you select
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Many of these traders will use tables all at the same volatility, the current at-the-money implied volatility, and estimate the volatility differentials of the skewed strikes by having a knowledge of what rate the implied volatility increases per strike in the direction of the skew
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Because humans have emotions and may be at least partially irrational when emotions are part of the equation, proper interpretation of the key stock movement is sometimes skewed
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He does not employ naked short selling as a strategy, fearing the skewed risk of unlimited loss on a short position that moves higher
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THE POPULATION OF COLMA, California, is heavily skewed toward the dead
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Had this been a day where volume was not skewed by the monthly options expiry or periodic index rebalancing, then we would certainly view it as a distribution day
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However, because volume may have been skewed by an options expiry on this particular date, it has to be viewed with some skepticism since the market did finish up on the day
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If the market had closed down, with a long daily range showing material volatility on the day, then the potentially skewed volume would have to be taken for what it is, a down day on heavier volume, hence a distribution day
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Upon closer investigation, it seems many sites with five year or longer track records could not beat the markets, which should not come as a surprise, and the top two performers shown in the next table had stellar returns in 2008, which catapulted them to the top of the list and skewed their annualized returns to what you see in the next table
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In other words, they modified their strategy midstream but their reported returns are skewed to reflect the best possible results
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The entire distribution is skewed toward the upside because upside price changes (a positive rate of return) will be greater, in absolute terms, than downside price changes (a negative rate of return)
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The option has a skewed or adjusted delta of –15
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Because the price of a stock can never go below zero, the weighted distribution would be skewed; hence the odds presented here would not be accurate
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In addition, one of the criticisms of the NYSE Advance-Decline Line is that the NYSE, which is where this indicator gets its data, has been skewed with nonoperating issues such as closed-end bond funds
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Since really bad times did not materialize until 2007–2008, these skewed strategies performed so well that they attracted hot money, which further boosted returns:• The archetypical strategy of this type is equity index volatility selling which profits from the normally steady gap between implied and realized volatilities
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A growing literature studies the observed asymmetries in asset returns as well as their pricing implications (including pricing of options whose payoffs are inherently skewed)
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All else equal, people prefer assets that tend to earn high returns during volatile markets and thus make their portfolio more positively skewed (lottery ticket like)
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Conversely, people dislike negative skewness and require extra ex ante reward for holding assets—often volatility selling or carry trades—that perform poorly during volatile markets (and thereby make their portfolio more negatively skewed)
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The authors document that a meaningful segment of retail investors is underdiversified and exhibits “lotto” preferences (favoring highly skewed stocks and holding portfolios with positive skewness)
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In a paper titled “Stocks as lotteries,” Barberis–Huang (2008) develop a model in which investors overvalue (“overweight”) low-probability events (an idea originating from Kahneman and Tversky’s prospect theory) and then overpay for assets with positively skewed, or lottery-type, return distributions
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As a result of such overpaying, positively skewed securities may have negative expected returns