When data points on a bell curve are not distributed symmetrically to the left and right sides of the median, the bell curve is skewed. A high skew can reflect the presence of outliers or kurtosis.

As a growing number of companies build AI tools to assess common skin conditions, a recent study found that this skewed data makes them less accurate in darker skin. Researchers at MIT Media Lab ...

The estimated cost of bot-skewed data is now almost $700 billion. Ultimately, the problem of fake traffic and bots is becoming a strategic threat to the well-being of data-driven organizations ...

She says without accurate data on infections, there was no way of knowing the true number of positive infections in the community. Without that data it is difficult to plan public health responses ...

She called the data "skewed," and added: "Everybody who's reviewed this data can agree that that's not a reliable result, that there's too much noise for us to determine if that's a true exceedance." ...