An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
OUTLIER
outlier
(noun) an extreme deviation from the mean
outlier
(noun) a person who lives away from his place of work
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
outlier (plural outliers)
A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
(geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
(statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
Antonyms
• inlier
Source: Wiktionary
Out"li`er, n.
1. One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. Bentley.
2. That which lies, or is, away from the main body.
3. (Geol.)
Definition: A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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