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To distort or give an uneven direction to something.

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skew

A sample drawn from only one group could skew the apparent balance of opinions.
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Selecting only repeated-offense cases would skew the summary, making that selected group appear to represent everyone in the invented population.
From What the Report Actually Measures.
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