I'm not comfortable with using an outlier as a data point, no. I'm also not comfortable when outliers are also used to prove the opposite (effort is useless, l

I'm not comfortable with using an outlier as a data point, no. I'm also not comfortable when outliers are also used to prove the opposite (effort is useless, luck is everything, etc). We should not be using outliers to form our understanding about how the world works, period.