That wasn't the point of my post. My point was that, no matter how you fudge the numbers, it's impossible to chalk up bad divorces as outliers. Outliers are de

That wasn't the point of my post. My point was that, no matter how you fudge the numbers, it's impossible to chalk up bad divorces as outliers. Outliers are defined as 3 standard deviations from the mean in a normal distribution, so the parent was implying that bad divorces occur at a rate of 0.1% or less--which is off by at least one order of magnitude.