outlier
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/ˈaʊtlaɪər/
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/ˈaʊtlaɪə(r)/
A person or thing that is noticeably different from the rest of a group.
In a group of artists, the scientist was an outlier.
在一群藝術家中,科學家是個異類。
A data point that is significantly higher or lower than the rest of the data in a set.
The high score was an outlier, making the average score seem much higher than it actually was.
高分是一個異常值,使得平均分數看起來比實際要高得多。