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		billswift on Sept 19, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Next Generation Bends Over "Outlier" just means it's a statistical oddity; anything can become an outlier, sometimes very quickly, if things change the right way.

whopa on Sept 19, 2009 [–]

Sure, but citing an outlier as an example as something that could happen isn't really meaningful, since it is so improbable.

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