Skew: How to Memorize Negative and Positively Skewed Distributions

Here's a fun way to learn about and memorize positive and negative skew. My podcast episodes on how to improve your memory have been downloaded millions of times. These mnemonics are now available in a PDF ebook you can get here: mbritt.gumroad...
Spend less time studying for tests by quickly memorizing. Created by a Psychology professor and host of the popular Psych Files podcast (over 21 million downloads).

[@audreyd2799]

This is a great visual for we kinetic learners! Thank you!

[@roxie2luv]

this is awesome!! thank u for a lovely explanation !!

[@teedarlene4408]

this is so creactive! Thank you, Sir!

[@MichaelBritt_ThePsychFiles]

You're welcome. I hope it helps on a test question!

[@isamkyga2298]

Liked so much sir . Thanks a lot

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[@llauryn]

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[@MichaelBritt_ThePsychFiles]

Thank you! This concept of pos and neg skew always confused my students, so I hope this mnemonic helps you on your next test!

[@StopWhining491]

I've needed something like this to make sense of skewness. Histograms just never made sense.

[@aytownrepresent]

This is perfect man, thank you :D

[@hollypearce2407]

You are fantastic! Seriously, thank you for the chuckle and good memorization.

[@MichaelBritt_ThePsychFiles]

Thanks! Yea, a fun little mnemonic isn't it? I actually used it a few months ago when I was covering skew. Thanks for the comment.

[@hollypearce2407]

@@MichaelBritt_ThePsychFiles I will absolutely be passing it on to any confused classmates :-) awesome stuff!

[@SoundCheck9910]

Wow, creative props to you Mr. Britt

[@MichaelBritt_ThePsychFiles]

Thank you! This was a fun one.

[@sahree]

lol this made me laugh...found it during a search for my Graduate Research Methods final exam paper.... thank you.

[@berryford]

Perfect you have no idea how easily you just made this for me LOL

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remarkable!

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It helps❤

[@TheOwenmatthess]

Thank you very much haha, this actually really helped allot :]

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10 YEARS AGO U WROTE THIS?!

[@TheOwenmatthess]

Hahaha wow! So long ago!!

[@tollya55]

That's perfect

[@godzilladude1231]

Hey man. How do you know if a distribution is negatively or positvely skewed from the first look?

[@MichaelBritt_ThePsychFiles]

+John Constantine The term "skew" refers to the look of the distribution. There are exact measures of skewness, but multiple choice tests typically just have an image of a skewed distribution and asks which direction the skew is in. The "skew" part is the skinny part of the distribution.

[@StopWhining491]

@@MichaelBritt_ThePsychFiles Or alternatively, the location of your pinkie toes in relation to your big toes.

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[@anav2434]

lol Thank you!!! :)

[@Picknikly]

Ha it was so funny! You're good!

[@MichaelBritt_ThePsychFiles]

Picknikly Glad you like it. Lots more mnemonics on my website: www.ThePsychFiles.com

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