Question

A comic-strip writer churns out a different number of comic strips each day. For 16 days, the writer logged the number of comic strips written each day (sorted low to high): {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7}. What type of skew can be observed in this distribution?

Answer 1

try making a graph of the values and compare to these two distributions:

Answer 2

the direction of the "tail" is where the skewness lies