First, consider deliberate thinking. Deliberate thinking is relatively slow, rule-based and explicit; a contemplative process of weighing pros and cons, gathering scientific or statistical evidence. It would appear that this makes for pretty solid decision-making.
Jul 24, 2015. Outliers increase the standard deviation. Mean is most affected by outliers, since all values in a sample are given the same weight when calculating mean. A value that is far removed from the mean is going to likely skew your results and increase the standard deviation. Say you have five values: 2, 1, 2, 1.5, and 2.1.
The Interquartile Range and Outliers. In the previous post, I introduced percentiles and quartiles and said that the Interquartile Range (IQR) is found by subtracting Q3 (the third quartile) minus Q1 (the first quartile).The IQR is significant because it tells us where the middle 50% of the numbers in the data set lie. Add the resulting number to Q3 to get an upper boundary for outliers. 2  Subtract the same resulting number (from #2) from Q1 to get a lower boundary for outliers. 3  If a number in the data set lies beyond either boundary, it is considered an outlier. 4  Q3 - Q1 = 88 - 80 = 8 (The IQR).