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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Google counts on May 10, 2007
3,060,000 – outlier (+6,380,000 – outliers)
4460 – outliar (+440 – outliars)
“Outliers” are data points that fall outside an expected range. More generally, it can refer to anything that deviates significantly from the norm. I’m sure the term “outliar” is often an intentional reshaping meant to place an emphasis that anything that far astray must surely be a liar. I just wonder if any of the usages are eggcorns. Too bad there aren’t more. I just get a chuckle out of the imagery every time I think about it.
Examples:
Wesabe: Make Wesabe Better: Geotag/Addresses for vendors/transactionsThis location/date/time info might make it easier to spot outliars and do our own fraud checking (hm, 3 purchases on sunday in city x, but then another …
https://www.wesabe.com/groups/3/discussions/354 – 25k – Cached – Similar pages
Expediting the P4 Hack – Mili’s MaraudersThe representation can not include any biased outliars. Hackers would be considered outliars because of the illegal nature of the activity. ...
www.dssftp.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25915 – 203k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
Myspace.comMeanwhile at the bottom of the story which you omitted other experts question the validity of the study as the numbers look more like outliars than facts… ...
forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewThread&entryID=1927199 – 55k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
One shaman, many shamimbamotherfuckers – WARBUCKET FORUMSHeh, I guess you’re an outliar. Profile Card PM. Go to the top of the page … Heh, I guess you’re an outliar. omg found out. Profile Card PM …
www.warbucket.com/ibforums/index.php?showtopic=26454 – 85k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
The Swamp – Chicago Tribune – Blogs.Congratulations Don B. You’ve IDd the outliars in the scientific community. ... PS There is always a list of outliars. I could pull up a list of 60 bozos …
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/04/gingrich_to_deb.html – Similar pages
[PPT] Understanding the Needs of Adult Survivors of Institutional Sexual …File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint – View as HTML
Trusting the victims; stop looking for the outliars. Civil proceedings ….. Goals for civil litigation; the monetary trap; Effecting change in large …
www.crvawc.ca/documents/Nov.23London.ppt – Similar pages
The Enneagram Institute Discussion BoardTherefore, why don’t you people realize that the systems are not perfect and deal with the outliars as exactly that. Please. ...
www.enneagraminstitute.com/forum/post.a … 1315&FO… – 63k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
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Why not? Seems a reasonable one to me!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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