diff --git a/changelog/3611.doc.rst b/changelog/3611.doc.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+The description above the example for ``@pytest.mark.skipif`` now better matches the code.
diff --git a/doc/en/skipping.rst b/doc/en/skipping.rst
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@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ during import time.
 
 If you wish to skip something conditionally then you can use ``skipif`` instead.
 Here is an example of marking a test function to be skipped
-when run on a Python3.6 interpreter::
+when run on an interpreter earlier than Python3.6 ::
 
     import sys
     @pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info < (3,6),
-                        reason="requires python3.6")
+                        reason="requires python3.6 or higher")
     def test_function():
         ...