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.
Positive Skew. And positive skew is when the long tail is on the positive side of the peak, and some people say it is skewed to the right. The mean is on the right of the peak value. Example: Income Distribution. Here is some data extracted from a recent Census.