While he understands why some may have trouble sympathizing with a three-time drug offender, Tyler offers perspective. A life sentence, people don't really understand it. A man raped his daughter, got probation. A man killed people with his car, got probation.
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.
A distribution is said to be skewed when the data points cluster more toward one side of the scale than the other. A distribution is positively skewed, or skewed to the right, if the scores fall toward the lower side of the scale and there are very few higher scores.