What's the difference between a point in a distribution whose value is much higher than the rest and Boris Johnson?
One is an outlier to the right, the other is an outright liar.
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Malcom Gladwell is going to write a book about politicians as a follow-up to "Outliers"
It's going to be called "Out-and-out Liars"
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There are many problems with math puns.
Calculus jokes are mostly derivative, trigonometry jokes are too graphic, algebra jokes are usually formulaic, and arithmetic jokes are pretty basic.
But the occasional statistics joke is an outlier.
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Don't be a statistic
Be an outlier.
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This joke may contain profanity. 🤔
New study shows the average person has 8 sexual partners in their life.
However it is being criticized for counting your mom who has sex with 30 new people a day and is therefore a statistical outlier.
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What do you call a mathematician who never tells the truth?
A straight outlier.
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The mean, median, and mode walk into a Republican bar
The median says "Wow, this place us really skewed to the right! Me, though, I'm a centrist."
The mode was taller than everyone else and got the most numbers.
Meanwhile, the mean was overly influenced by outliers and got high off to the side.
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Coin flip
One day, Bob came home from school and proudly told his father, “My teacher taught us about the probability of a coin flip today! A coin will land on heads 50% of the time all the time!”
Bob’s father: That’s... not quite how it works.
Bob: Nuh-uh! My teacher said so!
Bob’s fat...
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