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by alexssung 3492 days ago
That wasn't the point of my post.

My point was that, no matter how you fudge the numbers, it's impossible to chalk up bad divorces as outliers. Outliers are defined as 3 standard deviations from the mean in a normal distribution, so the parent was implying that bad divorces occur at a rate of 0.1% or less--which is off by at least one order of magnitude.

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> Outliers are defined as 3 standard deviations from the mean in a normal distribution

I kind of agree with your overall point, but that definition is wildly incorrect.