In the former case one wishes to discard them or use statistics that are robust to outliers, while in the latter case they indicate that the distribution has high kurtosis and that one should be very cautious in using tools or intuitions that assume a normal distribution.
Esikhathini esidlule omunye ufisa ukuwalahleka noma ukusebenzisa izibalo eziqinile kuma-outliers, kuyilapho okwenzeka kamuva kubonisa ukuthi ukusatshalaliswa kune-kurtosis ephezulu nokuthi umuntu kufanele aqaphe kakhulu ekusebenziseni amathuluzi noma izintulo ezithatha ukusatshalaliswa okujwayelekile.