outlier
noun/ˈaʊtlaɪə(r)/
/ˈaʊtlaɪər/
- a person or thing that is different from or in a position away from others in the group
- They are corporate outliers, people who just don't fit into the culture of the company.
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- (statistics) a data point on a graph or in a set of results that is very much bigger or smaller than the next nearest data point
- If the outliers are removed from the data, the overall results do change significantly.
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