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Trump popular with stock photos, telenovela actresses and that African-American guy

Edit Raw Story 07 Jun 2016
Strange as it may seem, the face – to say nothing of the stubby-fingered hands — of the Republican Party has a bit of a problem with people of the non-pasty-white persuasion in the the upcoming election. According to the polls (which are always skewed unless they conform to your world v... ....

Three questions to ask before buying a plant

Edit The Tribune San Luis Obispo 06 Jun 2016
We buy new plants because we fall in love with them. Every time you visit the garden center in spring, your oxytocin starts flowing and you want all those beautiful flowers for your yard. But love is blind and our judgment becomes skewed by all that passion and beauty. The plants come home with us to live yet they die. We cry, then the compost heap is fed yet again ... ....

Clinton Still Has More Negatives Among Dems Than Sanders

Edit Gallup 06 Jun 2016
"Sometimes you just have to give up." ... pts.) ... Though Sanders is generally well-liked by Democrats, he is most popular among adults who initially say they are independent in terms of party affiliation but skew Democratic when asked which party they lean toward ... It is worth noting again that Sanders' positive image is extraordinarily skewed toward young people, despite his being the oldest candidate in the race (at age 74) ... ....

Between the lines: Mothers, you can’t have it all

Edit Scotsman 06 Jun 2016
Apparently, they are missing out on promotion, being denied training, and even threatened with the sack for their life choice ... While the Commission called for the government to take “urgent action” to stop the equivalent of 390,000 women supposedly experiencing negative treatment at work, calling it “unacceptable in modern Britain”, I would suggest that the survey findings were skewed towards something of a foregone conclusion ... ....

Here's One Way Facebook Might Be Changing the Electorate

Edit The Atlantic 06 Jun 2016
We often hear about Facebook’s incredible power over election results—it’s something I’ve reported on frequently this year. This week, we got a sense of just how outsize that power may be. Tuesday, June 7, is the last day for U.K ... According to the U.K ... Voter Registration Applications, by TypeGov.uk ... government ... But the bump in young people registering especially reinforces the Facebook hypothesis, as the platform’s users skew young ... ....

Arab states almost double small-arms imports

Edit The Guardian 06 Jun 2016
Report raises questions over how much sales of light weapons and ammunition are fuelling conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Libya ... Imports of handguns, light weapons and ammunition, $m ... Related ... Based on official figures, the Small Arms Survey concedes that its analysis “is skewed toward documenting more transparent countries and underestimates the total value and extent of the global trade in small arms”. ....

Trump isn't only one feeding on Americans' anger, unease

Edit The Oklahoman 06 Jun 2016
OF all the public expressions of intolerance these days — and there are many — the one getting a lot of ink is Donald Trump's intolerance of criticism, especially from left-leaning media outlets. Trump finds a sympathetic audience with his own criticism of reporters ... In large measure this mistrust has been earned by broadcast journalists who selectively edit their reports or otherwise skew the truth ... ....

Yardsmart: Three questions to ask before buying a plant

Edit The Miami Herald 06 Jun 2016
We buy new plants because we fall in love with them. Every time you visit the garden center in spring, your oxytocin starts flowing and you want all those beautiful flowers for your yard. But love is blind and our judgment becomes skewed by all that passion and beauty. The plants come home with us to live yet they die. We cry, then the compost heap is fed yet again ... They visualize it in the space at maturity ... WILL IT SURVIVE THE WINTER? ... ....

ON DECK: Blue Jays face tame Tigers in Detroit

Edit Toronto Sun 06 Jun 2016
We have heard a lot of grousing this year about how the Blue Jays have been underperforming relative to payroll, but all you have to do is look 300 kilometres down Highway 401 to see that it could be worse ... The Detroit Tigers, on the other hand, have a $200 million payroll, fourth-highest in MLB, that makes their .500 record in the AL Central look rather dismal ... Those numbers are a bit skewed because of his other-worldly start ... HOT....

Making UA strong and Republicans play politics with the Ex-Im Bank — June 6

Edit Ohio 06 Jun 2016
A vibrant community needs a strong university engaged in its cultural, social and economic life. Unfortunately, this was something Scott Scarborough never understood. While his tenure as president of the University of Akron was short, those of us who love and value this region can only hope he hasn’t done irreparable harm to the university ... Greg Brozeit ... I believe, however, the hurt that she has suffered has skewed her reasoning....

Sterling falls after polls suggest growing Brexit support

Edit BBC News 06 Jun 2016
The pound has weakened after new polls suggested an increased chance of a vote in the referendum to leave the European Union ... Trade and economy ... "We have seen a marked increase in implied volatility in the options market around the date of the referendum, once the date became known, and the skews in the option market, in other words the purchase of downside protection if the pound was going to depreciate, had gone up quite sharply." ... ....

Last Week’s Jobs Report Was the New Normal, Not a Blip

Edit Asia Times 06 Jun 2016
American employers have been hiring more and selling less during the past three years of putative recovery ... Rarely do three melons come up together in the data release, which makes it look less like a blip than a blowup ... These are harder to interpret; for example, “productivity” in banks is skewed by the poor earnings in the sector, and productivity in the energy sector is biased by the collapse in energy prices ...  ....

America in decline? Stats say no

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 06 Jun 2016
Not only are many Americans today wealthier than their parents were, but they also enjoy a lifestyle unimaginable three decades ago ... The report concludes that wage growth has averaged about 2.4 percent during the past two years, but the authors argue measures of wage growth have been skewed because as “higher-wage baby boomers have been retiring, lower-wage workers sidelined during the recession have been taking new full-time jobs.”....
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