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Posts with more than 500 upvotes are rare, therefore making them outliers.
by mgfist 3y ago
Posts with more than 500 upvotes are rare, therefore making them outliers.
- sodapopcan 3y agoWhile technically correct, is this really how "outliers" is generally used? I tend to think of it as "the forgotten few," not "the select few."
- 7moritz7 3y agoYes, in statistics when something is noticeably detached from most that's an outlier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier
- sodapopcan 3y agoAh ya, of course, which of course is appropriate here. I was thinking of it in a social context... which is actually also somewhat appropriate here, but likely less so.