Celeste Ng

In fiction you're not often writing about the typical; you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes from feeling I was the only Asian or person of colour... another part comes from my personality: I'm an introvert, and my usual survival mode in a large group is to stand by a wall and watch everybody.

American Author

Eric Schmidt

If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.

American Businessman

Rich Eisen

In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.

American Journalist

Robert J. Shiller

We should not be focusing on quick solutions. The really important concern for policymakers everywhere is to prevent disasters - that is, the outlier events that matter the most.

American Economist

Ken Cuccinelli

When one person does something, you look like an outlier. And whether it makes sense or not, the states get a certain level of respect from the courts that other people don't.

American Politician

Siddhartha Mukherjee

A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.

Indian Scientist

John Gourley

Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the city their own.

American Musician

Thomas E. Mann

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

American Sociologist

Richard N. Haass

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

American Diplomat

Nolan Bushnell

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

Used to describe someone or something that doesn't fit the usual pattern in a group.

Uncommon Instance

'Outlier' doesn't imply something negative; it simply means distinct or atypical.

Not Negative

Highlights the extent to which an outlier differs from the norm, sometimes triggering interest or further investigation.

Emphasis on Difference

In geology, it literally means a piece of land or rock formation separated from the main body.

Physical Separation

An outlier may have a unique or unusual formation due to its isolated development.

Unique Formation

Isolation can lead to different characteristics or traits in a geological outlier.

Isolation Impact

Outliers in data can indicate errors in measurement or recording, affecting the accuracy.

Data Accuracy

In computing, detecting outliers can improve the efficiency of algorithms and models.

Algorithm Efficiency

Statistical outliers may suggest significant but hidden variables in a study.

Statistical Significance

 check it's a heartwarming story but if you drill a little bit deeper you've got to sort of wonder about what exactly was going on there you know when you have two outliers and one organism it's not a coincidence when you have someone who is more competitive and more compassionate to anybody else in the race again it's

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 but again it's going to be different for different people that will always be those edge cases are sort of the tail ends of the bell curve distribution as it were but that's a good I think range to shoot for I mean do you think there are outliers in other margaret thatcher's and my wife's of this world

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 goes home with a big fat check. It's a heartwarming story, but if you drill a little bit deeper, you've got to sort of wonder about what exactly was going on there. When you have two outliers in one organism, it's not a coincidence. When you have someone who is more competitive and more compassionate

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 Now, some of you are probably just desperately clawing for some solace in the idea that these things are oddities of the natural world, that they are outliers, and that point of view is understandable, because by their nature, parasites are quite small and they spend a lot of their time

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 Mike Wyatt like archaeologists dug deep and diagnosed me with selective mutism proved that my fear of talking was social anxiety and not attitude explained that I was so afraid of people that my vocal cords locked themselves in that I was not outlier but pioneer like

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 Which one is the outlier? And the answer is, you have no idea. You don't know. Right? And deleting a data point is really violating one of the things that I found so beautiful about the scientific process -- it really allows the data to reveal the truth to you.

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 and we calculate their relative age, their biological age. And what you see is that there is a pretty good correlation, so we can pretty well predict the relative age of a person. But what's really exciting are the outliers, as they so often are in life.

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 Second, build something extraordinary out of it. Inspire people. Fortunately, Balinese culture fosters craftsmanship. It values the artisan. So combine those with the adventurous outliers from new generations of locally trained architects

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 so everything in the cloud is roughly correlated. And then we find some outliers, some things that lie beyond the cloud. And those genes are interesting, but they're very subtle. So I think it's an important message to take home today

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 we hesitate to use that terminology because as i said as scientists we don't even know how to define what it means to be a genius but what we're looking for is statistical outliers you know people who if you just look at