Actually not. This is not a text about you.
But, as Gladwell puts it in Outliers, if you find yourself being that type of outlier, you’re quite lucky. And rare.
According to Meriam-Webster, an outlier is:
“a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample”
But you’re not here for that, are you?
Let’s simply explain when a data point is considered an outlier, why that might happen, and what you can do about it.
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