Many people live a thoughtless life. The society where most people follow others blindly is full of robbery, bully, and self-deception. Most people live in the darkness, while a few people who can realize the true features of the society are taken as “outliers”.
Outliers represent a special group
of people who usually are excluded from and depressed by the society and nally have no choice but accept the reality and castrate their thoughts and feelings. It’s lonely at the top.
In the eyes of abnormal persons, normal persons are abnormal.
We usually regard persons who think and act in a queer way as outliers. In fact, these persons are more normal than any others else. It is that we don’t understand them. Hence, I believe those so-called outliers are not persons with mental disease or abnormality,but they differ from us in thinking perspectives and behaviors.
is a terminology of statistics, referring to values deviating far from the normal range.
Outliers literally
Khinchin's early works focused on real analysis. Later he applied methods from the metric theory of functions to problems in probability theory and number theory.
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin
Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bayes was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for having formulated a specic case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem. Bayes never published what would eventually become his most famous accomplishment; his notes were edited and published after his death by Richard Price.
Outlier says:
"When you live in a crazy world, yeah, the crazy one is what you are."
