I don’t think the sculptor was planning to sculpt an outlandish alien nose. The problem is that if your statue doesn’t look right heads will roll. The story is

I don’t think the sculptor was planning to sculpt an outlandish alien nose. The problem is that if your statue doesn’t look right heads will roll. The story isn’t about the selection of outlier data points as being representative - its more about drawing conclusions through seemingly plausible sounding methods that are nevertheless completely disjoint from the thing you’re reasoning about.