Life sentences do not always mean life in prison without parole. People with 1 life sentence can get out well before their death if they are paroled. By giving 2 consecutive life sentences, the person begins serving the 2nd one as soon as paroled for the first, thereby making it closer to an actual life sentence.
For skewed distributions, it is quite common to have one tail of the distribution considerably longer or drawn out relative to the other tail. A skewed right distribution is one in which the tail is on the right side. A skewed left distribution is one in which the tail is on the left side. The above histogram is for a distribution that is skewed right. Skewed distributions bring a certain philosophical complexity to the very process of estimating a typical value for the distribution.
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. verb. To skew is to twist something so it is not straight or to distort something so it is biased or unfair. An example of skew is when you fix a contest so it is biased in favor of your friends.erb. verb. 1  To turn or place at an angle: skew the cutting edge of a plane. 2  To give a bias to; distort: The use of a limited sample skewed the findings of the study.