In Austria a special parliamentary committee investigating political corruption is questioning serving and former ministers this week about a convoluted web of alleged bribery and profiteering from government tenders and skewed legislation.
"We have too much of a rosy, skewed, unhelpful picture of kids in this country," she says.
Despite Sobyanin's use of the "administrative resource" and skewed media coverage, however, Navalny got an impressive 27% of the vote – not enough to force a second round, but enough to vindicate those in the Kremlin who felt he should never have been allowed to stand in the first place.
"Such photos, which are often carefully framed, styled and filtered, can make us see our past through a skewed lens".
By blaming the threat of terrorism on multiculturalism, Cameron has signalled that ethnic minority policy will now be driven by an alarmingly skewed conception of state security.
In some states the numbers are yet more skewed: blacks are 91% of non-violent life-without-parole prisoners in Louisiana, 79% in Mississippi and 68% in South Carolina.Perpetually warehousing petty criminals is expensive.
The problem lies not so much in the growth rate, which seems safely on the decline, as in the skewed age structure left over by past years of high growth.
The distribution of dollar incomes may have become more skewed in recent years, but leisure is more evenly spread than ever.Ms Costa bases her research on consumption surveys dating back as far as 1888.
They might also be deprived of the skewed electoral system that has hitherto ensured that they control Jordan's parliament.
And Turkers, despite being more diverse than undergraduates, are still a pretty skewed sample of humanity.
In little more than a generation Mao's egalitarian dystopia has become a country with an income distribution more skewed than America's.
