Question

In your own words, describe what an outlier is. Give a real life example of an outlier.

Answer 1

What are your thoughts so far?

Answer 2

i don't know what this is

Answer 3

Are you familiar with a scatter plot?

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

Or a dot plot?

Answer 6

ya

Answer 7

nevermind I do know what a scatter plot is

Answer 8

For a scatter plot, imagine a cluster of points grouped together somehow (forming some pattern line or curve). An outlier would be far from the group all on its own

Here's an example

Answer 9

thank you

Answer 10

So in a sense, the outlier is far from the norm or average.

Answer 11

No problem