Word: skewing
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Such generalizations, said Ho, skew research funding so that although "Chinese women get cervical cancer more than Caucasians," they are ignored because all Asian women do not share this problem...
...money for anyone willing to sell an inside account of the verdict deliberations. But even if the Simpson trial is in a class by itself, it still promises to exemplify problems that infect the American jury system as a whole. Those include the likely attempt by lawyers to skew the panel along racial and gender lines, plus a surfeit of dense testimony, in this case about the scientific validity of DNA evidence, in a trial that threatens to go on for so long that jurors will be hard- pressed to remember at the end what they heard at the beginning...
Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow says the movie industry has done much to skew the public's perception of scientists...
...improved security in the schools. Is the crime problem bad? Yes and no. Yes in the sense that the rates for murder and other violent crimes are somewhat higher than for the nation generally. But then they always have been -- as is typical of resort areas, where tourists skew the figures. What's interesting is how even in its level of violence the rest of America has come to resemble Las Vegas. The city's homicide rate was 128% higher than the nation's as recently as 1982; today the Las Vegas homicide figure is only 56% higher than...
...contours of the lips, nose and eyes, even laugh lines around the mouth. The eyes in particular required many key points to make them as detailed as possible; otherwise the results would be very erratic. Similarly, miscalculating the dimensions of an upper lip only slightly, for example, could badly skew the resulting face...