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The data point that refused to attend the meeting about being average.
means A value or person that sits far from the rest of the pack, defying the expected pattern.
from Seventeenth-century English for something lying outside — first the stone quarried beyond the main vein, later the figure stranded beyond the curve.
Stats panicOne outlier can wreck an average instantly.
Tukey's fencesStatisticians literally fence outliers out mathematically.
Gladwell effectHis 2008 book made the word a brand.