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The data point everyone wants to delete and no one should.
means A person or thing that sits apart from the main group or pattern — unusual enough to stand out from the rest.
from Built from 'out' plus 'lie' (as in 'to lie, be situated'), so literally something that lies outside — originally a 17th-century English term for property or land detached from the main estate, before statisticians in the 19th century borrowed it for a data point sitting outside the expected range.
- statistical rule
- beyond 1.5x the interquartile range, officially
- common sin
- discarded before anyone asks why it happened
- real talent
- Einstein, Shakespeare, that one coworker
- hidden truth
- often the most informative point in the set