The outlier is the Globe/UNH poll, which showed Patrick ahead by only 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rasmussen: Patrick retains his lead] Reference

Which, of course, means it's a bit of an outlier from the other polls we've seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN says the race is tied.] Reference

Of course, the outlier is Tristan, which might as well be a 20th century opera anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top of the (OWA) Pops] Reference

Finding a poll showing them nearly tied is not an "outlier" - it just confirms the Rasmussen poll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll Gives Obama The Lead In Pennsylvania] Reference

This dramatic shift toward the pro-life position is not an "outlier" - it has been confirmed by two other studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedState] Reference

I consider you an "outlier" - one who substantially exceeds the norm so much that you defy classification by norms.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS] Reference

(The outlier is a study of Sudanese politics dated to 1990, of all things.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Apple] Reference

I think like I said before, the outlier is the first quarter we got and a very low number.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Since every controlled study contradicts them, I opt for Occam's razor and assume the outlier is a statistical anomaly.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

The poll being an "outlier" is the least of its problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zogby Gives Obama Really Big Lead Over Clinton] Reference

But that is not grounds for calling this poll an "outlier".    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Des Moines Register Poll: Obama And Huckabee Ahead] Reference

In general, the word "outlier" gets thrown around way too much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Edwards, Huckabee Lead In Iowa] Reference

And just to demonstrate that year was not some kind of outlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Ultimate Lottery Ticket] Reference

United States everyone can and should be an "outlier" in some sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noah Shachtman: Data Mining Can't Predict the Next Attack] Reference

Yeah, that's great for Obama but I'm going to have to call "outlier".    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin Again Repeats Bridge To Nowhere Lie] Reference

Would all you folks using the word "outlier" take a statistics course?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll Gives Obama The Lead In Pennsylvania] Reference

After bashing the Newsweek poll as an "outlier," this is the new "strategy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Camp Responds To Poll: No, We're Only Trailing Obama By Seven Points!] Reference

Erich, a funny guy I know once explained "outlier" as a poll he didn't like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dar Kush] Reference

We've been here before with the "outlier" issue, and I went for weeks ignoring you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Huckabee Ahead By Five In Iowa!] Reference

He said the problems at McNeil were limited to the unit he called McNeil an "outlier" in the company.    From Wordnik.com.  [J] Reference

So even if we ignored the likely voter model problem, it appears the DMR poll is no longer an "outlier".    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Des Moines Register Poll: Obama And Huckabee Ahead] Reference

As FreakyBeaky notes, a poll with a questionable likely voter model is not by that definition an "outlier".    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Edwards, Huckabee Lead In Iowa] Reference

In statistics, when an observation is too many standard deviations away from the mean it's called an "outlier".    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution is the rule, not the exception. We're the exception.] Reference

Hm, maybe "outlier," like "beauty," is in the eye of the beholder, but to my eye PPP also looks like an outlier there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polls: Obama Holds Small Edge In Wisconsin] Reference

Of course you have offered the last defense when the polls aren't going your way: you declared this poll an "outlier".    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Des Moines Register Poll: Obama And Huckabee Ahead] Reference

I am not saying it is an 'outlier'; I agree with Charles Franklin's philosophy that there is no such thing as an outlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zogby Gives Obama Really Big Lead Over Clinton] Reference

The deeper the discussion goes into stochastic modelling and "outlier" events, the more intellectually fraught it becomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day of Jitters Over Those Stress Tests] Reference

Actual history includes many "outlier" events, called so because they lie outside the small "tails" of the normal bell curve.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Better Way To Do Asset Allocation] Reference

The reason this is important is that I think calling a poll an "outlier" is for most people a prelude to saying we should ignore it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Edwards, Huckabee Lead In Iowa] Reference

But given this overall pattern, I am reluctant to say any individual poll was an "outlier" just because it fit that pattern. hadenough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Hillary's National Lead Slipping] Reference

January 12th, 2009 at 2: 31 pm Your "outlier" is not an outlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

The 1996 was a kind of outlier, strangely open with aromas of tropical fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pour] Reference

Some of the "outlier" artistic phenomena mentioned by Taleb are Mel Gibson's movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

This 'outlier' of an ethics 'poll' strikes an impartial observer as suspicious immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE IRATE NATION] Reference

Yet here's another "outlier" (or something like that) -- overcompensation, which occurs when.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Such optimisation would, eventually, kill you, after the first accident, the first "outlier".    From Wordnik.com.  [kottke.org] Reference

McInturff suggested that the poll is an "outlier," arguing that the race is "functionally tied.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference