Quotes About Outlier

Sanity is not statistical

I just really remember the feeling of being a younger comedian who was kind of an outlier for being experimental and weird and how that could feel lonely or hopeless.

El único que tal vez no sea el hombre es el que no se parece a los otros. El que rebasa o no alcanza a los demás. El que crece o se disminuye hasta quedar fuera de las estaturas normales. Ése no, porque pierde la medida cordial de la semejanza.

I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages.

Jacques Audiard has always been an outlier in a French film industry that is starkly bifurcated between high and low.

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

All that can accurately be said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority.

First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact (unlike the bird). Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.

In Extremistan, inequalities are such that one single observation can disproportionately impact the aggregate, or the total.

In other words, I aim at profiting from the rare event, with my asymmetric bets.

Probability tells us that any outlier—an observation that is particularly far from the mean in one direction or the other—is likely to be followed by outcomes that are more consistent with the long-term average.

Along with never having got round to writing down our constitution and having a monarch who legally owns all the swans, one of the things that makes the UK a bit of an outlier is our university admissions system.

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.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

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

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

I'm the pink sheep in the family.

Odds don't apply to statistically unique occurrences.

Excusing our momentary lapses as an outlier event triggers a self-indulgent inconsistency—which is fatal for change.

Don't assume that you are the exception.