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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
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