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- noun Plural form of
outlier .
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Examples
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There were less polls put in the field in February than in a normal month, which may have had something to do with this less outliers, in other words.
Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- February, 2011 Chris Weigant 2011
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There were less polls put in the field in February than in a normal month, which may have had something to do with this less outliers, in other words.
Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- February, 2011 Chris Weigant 2011
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For some, with money to blow, covering the outliers is ok.
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I suspect, although I can't prove, that even with open borders, those who chose to immigrate would tend to be statistical outliers from the general population of their home countries.
Why Do the Poor Commit More Crime?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And we do have stories of immigrant crimes on TV, but like shark attacks and extreme weather events, we overestimate their frequency because only certain outliers at the edges of the normal distribution get reported.
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For most, covering the outliers is too expensive, they just have to risk it.
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And we do have stories of immigrant crimes on TV, but like shark attacks and extreme weather events, we overestimate their frequency because only certain outliers at the edges of the normal distribution get reported.
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I suspect, although I can't prove, that even with open borders, those who chose to immigrate would tend to be statistical outliers from the general population of their home countries.
Why Do the Poor Commit More Crime?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The overwhelming consensus of climatologists, with the exception of a few outliers, is that humans are contributing significantly to global warming.
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The overwhelming consensus of climatologists, with the exception of a few outliers, is that humans are contributing significantly to global warming.
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