Posts Tagged as ‘coat-hangers’

January 23, 2008

Outliers

Collectors are outliers. Not out-and-out liars, except maybe to their partners when confronted with how much their latest collectable cost (limited edition of 211, released on one day only in a remote Norwegian fishing village). No, I mean they’re statistical outliers.
Statistics are a useful tool in understanding our world, although it has been said that [...]